New submission from Peter Stokes :
Attempting to reuse an instance of 'smtplib.SMTP', via invocation of the
'smtplib.SMTP.connect(…)' function, results in an invalid SMTP command sequence
being issued to the connected server:
```
import smtplib
smtp = smtplib
Peter Stokes added the comment:
I wanted to enquire as to if/when the proposed PR11998 is likely to be merged?
I also wanted to note the similarity between this issue and issue41470 and to
suggest that whilst the change proposed in commit e445ccbc of PR11998 [1] would
be welcome, there may