I would hope we’d remove it. It’s a toy implementation, unmaintained, probably doesn’t support a lot of newer protocol features, and is probably full of bugs. Hopefully nobody uses it!
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 17:51 Irit Katriel via python-committers < python-committers@python.org> wrote: > The documentation for smtpd (https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtpd.html) > states that " smtpd > <https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtpd.html#module-smtpd> should be > considered deprecated" and recommends aiosmtpd > <http://aiosmtpd.readthedocs.io/>. > > Are we planning to remove it from the stdlib? Note that at the moment the > smtpd module doesn't emit deprecation warnings, and aiosmtpd is not part of > the stdlib. > > This came up on https://bugs.python.org/issue28533, where we were hoping > to be able to move the (properly) deprecated asyncore and asynhat to > test.support (because there are still a few tests that use them). It seems > that smtpd is that last blocker for that. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/message/KNF6YQE2O4OLJDNKSGAT4NLZUNCQ5QSH/ > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido (mobile)
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