https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8150abb99183771324fdffccd316df6c7e8628c5
commit: 8150abb99183771324fdffccd316df6c7e8628c5
branch: 3.14
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: hugovk <[email protected]>
date: 2025-12-16T11:27:20Z
summary:

[3.14] gh-124864: Extends smtplib documentation on ESMTP options format 
(GH-132547) (#142796)

Co-authored-by: Patrick R <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/smtplib.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
index c5a3de52090cee..10525c90aa9072 100644
--- a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
@@ -440,9 +440,11 @@ An :class:`SMTP` instance has the following methods:
    Send mail.  The required arguments are an :rfc:`822` from-address string, a 
list
    of :rfc:`822` to-address strings (a bare string will be treated as a list 
with 1
    address), and a message string.  The caller may pass a list of ESMTP options
-   (such as ``8bitmime``) to be used in ``MAIL FROM`` commands as 
*mail_options*.
+   (such as ``"8bitmime"``) to be used in ``MAIL FROM`` commands as 
*mail_options*.
    ESMTP options (such as ``DSN`` commands) that should be used with all 
``RCPT``
-   commands can be passed as *rcpt_options*.  (If you need to use different 
ESMTP
+   commands can be passed as *rcpt_options*. Each option should be passed as a 
string
+   containing the full text of the option, including any potential key
+   (for instance, ``"NOTIFY=SUCCESS,FAILURE"``). (If you need to use different 
ESMTP
    options to different recipients you have to use the low-level methods such 
as
    :meth:`!mail`, :meth:`!rcpt` and :meth:`!data` to send the message.)
 

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