smtplib

[David Porter]

* Peter Timaratz <timaratz at lisco.com>:
> As a kindness to all the idiots like me perhaps this intro can be added to
> the smtplib module:
> 
> "This module implements SMTP and does not send e-mail. If you want to send
> e-mail with Python then learn SMTP. If you don't want to learn SMTP then you
> can use one of the many Perl modules available that don't require you to
> know SMTP."

Recommending a perl module would be strange. Then the 'idiots' would ask how
they import perl modules into python ;-) This would accomplish nothing. If
someone wants perl, I can hardly imagine them reading the source of the
python library. Not to mention that learning perl would require
substantially more effort than reading about the SMTP protocol.