david <davidventur...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Both thunderbird, sogo (web) and gmail (web). On June 14, 2018 3:54:31 PM GMT+02:00, "R. David Murray" <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > >R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: > >While you are correct that latin1 may be common in this situation, I >think it may still be better to have utf-8 be the default, since that >is the (still emerging? :) standard. However, you are correct to call >for examples: if in the *majority* of the real-world cases it turns out >latin1 is what is used, then we could default to that (or not have a >default, but instead document our observations). > >I don't know how we accumulate enough information to make that >decision, though. Maybe we could look at what other mail programs do? >Thunderbird, etc? David, which mail program(s) did you use that were >able to successfully send that password? > >And yes, by binary passwords I mean that the module needs to support >being passed a bytes-like object as the password, since clearly there >are servers "in the wild" that support non-ascii passwords and the only >way to be sure one can send the server the correct password is by >treating it as a series of bytes. The library caller will have to be >responsible for picking the correct encoding based on local knowledge. > >---------- > >_______________________________________ >Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> ><https://bugs.python.org/issue29750> >_______________________________________ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue29750> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
