[Mailman-Developers] smtplib buglet in 1.0b4

[The Dragon De Monsyne]

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, John Viega wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 10:05:39PM -0500, The Dragon De Monsyne wrote:
> > 
> > 	Hmm.... Actually, I'm pretty sure that not having the <>'s on the
> > address is perfectly fine according to the RFC's, as long as you don't
> > have any comments in the address. Are you sure this isn't a glitch w/
> > Vmailer? 
> 
> Actually, Scott's right, RFC 821 does indeed require angle brackets.

	Hmm... Indeed. Confusing language oon the rfc on that... 
I've fixed this in the latest edition of the standard smtplib 
(found at http://www.integral.org/~dragondm/python/smtplib.py)
I'll be posting that to c.l.python tonight, too.

> > 	PS, is there any specific reason that MailMan keeps using it's own
> > smtplib, rather than the one that is part of the Python 1.5.1 standard
> > library?
> 
> The initial reason was that the user interface on Mailman's SMTP lib
> was easier to program to.  For example, it was a lot easier to send a
> single message to a list of recipients.  The other reason is that

	Hmmm?? Howso? I've looked at the code, as far as I can tell, the
std smtplib has all the same interfaces the mm smtplib does, only
differing in the name of the smtp class. 

The python-lib smtplib also has a method, called 'sendmail' which does the
whole transaction for a list of recipients. 


> Mailman releases should come out more often than Python releases.
> Both smtplibs are pretty new software, and are pretty likely to
> change.  The patch from Scott is a good example.  So at some point I'd
> be happy to use the other smtplib, but we'd still end up providing a
> more up to date version than available w/ Python, probably.

	Prolly. 

	-The Dragon De Monsyne