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Author david__
Recipients JustAnother1, barry, david__, giampaolo.rodola, r.david.murray, taleinat
Date 2018-06-14.13:56:23
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Both thunderbird, sogo (web) and gmail (web).

On June 14, 2018 3:54:31 PM GMT+02:00, "R. David Murray" <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
>R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment:
>
>While you are correct that latin1 may be common in this situation, I
>think it may still be better to have utf-8 be the default, since that
>is the (still emerging? :) standard.  However, you are correct to call
>for examples: if in the *majority* of the real-world cases it turns out
>latin1 is what is used, then we could default to that (or not have a
>default, but instead document our observations).
>
>I don't know how we accumulate enough information to make that
>decision, though.  Maybe we could look at what other mail programs do? 
>Thunderbird, etc?  David, which mail program(s) did you use that were
>able to successfully send that password?
>
>And yes, by binary passwords I mean that the module needs to support
>being passed a bytes-like object as the password, since clearly there
>are servers "in the wild" that support non-ascii passwords and the only
>way to be sure one can send the server the correct password is by
>treating it as a series of bytes.  The library caller will have to be
>responsible for picking the correct encoding based on local knowledge.
>
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