[issue11281] smtplib: add ability to bind to specific source IP address/port

[Giampaolo Rodola']

Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> added the comment:

> I would like to add source_ip and source_port parameters to 
> smtplib.SMTP, default to '' and 0 respectively.

It would be better to provide a unique source_address parameter defaulting to None, for consistency with socket.create_connection() expecting a (addr, port) tuple.

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