Email example should use SMTP.quit() rather than SMTP.close()

[matt]

BPO	4239
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @ashemedai

^{Note: these values reflect the state of the issue at the time it was migrated and might not reflect the current state.}

Show more details

GitHub fields:

assignee = 'https://github.com/birkenfeld'
closed_at = <Date 2009-04-29.08:34:58.642>
created_at = <Date 2008-10-30.05:29:45.221>
labels = ['type-bug', 'docs']
title = 'Email example should use SMTP.quit() rather than SMTP.close()'
updated_at = <Date 2009-04-29.08:34:58.641>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/matt'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2009-04-29.08:34:58.641>
actor = 'asmodai'
assignee = 'georg.brandl'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2009-04-29.08:34:58.642>
closer = 'asmodai'
components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2008-10-30.05:29:45.221>
creator = 'matt'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 4239
keywords = []
message_count = 5.0
messages = ['75354', '75355', '86496', '86520', '86784']
nosy_count = 3.0
nosy_names = ['georg.brandl', 'asmodai', 'matt']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'low'
resolution = 'accepted'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue4239'
versions = ['Python 2.6']

[matt]

The email module example has "s.close()", while the smtplib docs say to
use .quit()

The latter is probably correct?

[matt]

Another problem with that example - the .connect() isn't required and
causes the SMTP session to fail to send anything and time out.

[ashemedai]

Thanks, committed in r71882.

Georg, I guess this needs to be backported to 2.6 at least and we need
to check what 3.x has.

[birkenfeld]

I'm guessing there is no difference in functionality in 2.6 or 3.x.

[ashemedai]

Not that I saw.

Merged to py3k and 2.6.