[Python-bugs-list] poplib: failure to strip leading '.' (PR#303)

[caolan@skynet.ie]

Full_Name: Caolan McNamara
Version: 1.5.2
OS: all
Submission from: calzone.stardiv.de (62.156.160.60)


poplib:
The pop rfc (rfc1725) states that if a multiline response leads with a '.' that

the server will add another leading '.' to distinguish it from the end of 
message marker which is a line consisting of a single '.' 

poplib fails to strip this extra leading '.', this strikes me as a sneaky 
buglet.

C.