Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #15014 - SMTP AUTH initial-response (beta exception requested)

2015-07-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 8 July 2015 at 05:12, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Jul 07, 2015, at 02:53 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: To me, the main question is whether you are sure that your proposal is the right fix, or whether you might reasonably do something different (with the new arguments) if changes were

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #15014 - SMTP AUTH initial-response (beta exception requested)

2015-07-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 09, 2015, at 08:47 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: That strikes me as just the kind of not-quite-as-finished-as-we-thought case that the beta cycle is designed to flush out, so the minor further enhancement sounds like a good idea to me. Cool. RDM provided some good feedback in the review, so

[Python-Dev] Issue #15014 - SMTP AUTH initial-response (beta exception requested)

2015-07-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
Larry and others, I'd like to bring your attention to issue #15014. This issue added arbitrary auth methods to smtplib, which is a good thing. Implicitly though, a regression was introduced w.r.t. RFC 4954's optional initial-response for the AUTH command, for authentication methods that support

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #15014 - SMTP AUTH initial-response (beta exception requested)

2015-07-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 07, 2015, at 02:53 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: To me, the main question is whether you are sure that your proposal is the right fix, or whether you might reasonably do something different (with the new arguments) if changes were reverted for the present and you two took more time to think about

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #15014 - SMTP AUTH initial-response (beta exception requested)

2015-07-07 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/7/2015 1:52 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: Larry and others, I'd like to bring your attention to issue #15014. This issue added arbitrary auth methods to smtplib, which is a good thing. Implicitly though, a regression was introduced w.r.t. RFC 4954's optional initial-response for the AUTH