Commit 8c740c4d authored by Serhiy Storchaka's avatar Serhiy Storchaka

Improved docs for issue27033. Based on comments by R. David Murray.

parent ea083faf
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cannot be set to ``True`` at the same time.
*decode_data* specifies whether the data portion of the SMTP transaction
should be decoded using UTF-8. The default is ``False``. When
*decode_data* is not set to ``True`` the server advertises the ``8BITMIME``
should be decoded using UTF-8. When *decode_data* is ``False`` (the
default), the server advertises the ``8BITMIME``
extension (:rfc:`6152`), accepts the ``BODY=8BITMIME`` parameter to
the ``MAIL`` command, and when present passes it to :meth:`process_message`
in the ``kwargs['mail_options']`` list. *decode_data* and *enable_SMTPUTF8*
......@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ SMTPServer Objects
format).
If the *decode_data* constructor keyword is set to ``True``, the *data*
parameter will be a unicode string. If it is set to ``False``, it
argument will be a unicode string. If it is set to ``False``, it
will be a bytes object.
*kwargs* is a dictionary containing additional information. It is empty
......@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ SMTPServer Objects
.. versionadded:: 3.5
The *decode_data* and *enable_SMTPUTF8* constructor parameters, and the
*kwargs* parameter to :meth:`process_message` when one or more of these is
specified.
*kwargs* parameter to :meth:`process_message` when *decode_data* is
``False``.
.. versionchanged:: 3.6
*decode_data* is now ``False`` by default.
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......@@ -640,6 +640,14 @@ Changes in the Python API
an error (e.g. EBADF) was reported by the underlying system call.
See :issue:`26685`.
* The *decode_data* argument for :class:`smtpd.SMTPChannel` and
:class:`smtpd.SMTPServer` constructors is now ``False`` by default.
This means that the argument passed to
:meth:`~smtpd.SMTPServer.process_message` is now a bytes object by
default, and ``process_message()`` will be passed keyword arguments.
Code that has already been updated in accordance with the deprecation
warning generated by 3.5 will not be affected.
Changes in the C API
--------------------
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