Pandu E POLUAN <pepol...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Hi Senthil, You're right, it does need a guard. According to my knowledge there is no AUTH mechanism that will send more than 3 challenges; they should fail afterwards with 535 or similar. Servers that don't do that should be considered buggy/broken. So I've pushed a commit to the GH PR that limits the challenge to 5 times, after which it will raise SMTPException. This will protect users of smtplib.SMTP from being trapped by a buggy/broken server. Rgds, -- ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue27820> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
