I wonder why Anthony's Grand sendall patch never found its way into Python 2.2, see

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Python-checkins/956422 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2001-December/009299.html https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=516715&group_id=5470&atid=305470

Unless there are any objections, I'll forward this patch to 2.2 (not sure what to do with imaplib, since that has been taken care of with an explicit loop in Python meanwhile).

An oversight! This should go into 2.2.1 definitely. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)