[issue19806] smtpd crashes when a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence is split between consecutive data packets

Illirgway added the comment: because "strict" throws an exception (for example, on raw win1251) which brings down production smtp daemon and "replace" embeds "ugly" characters into received (and passed) email messages -- ___

[issue19806] smtpd crashes when a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence is split between consecutive data packets

Illirgway added the comment: "base64", "quoted-printable" and "7bit" messages only use ASCII range of characters so raw_message.decode('ascii') == raw_message.decode('latin1') == etc. == raw_message.decode('utf-8') due to internal r

[issue19662] smtpd.py should not decode utf-8

Illirgway added the comment: Here is another patch for fixing this issue: https://github.com/Illirgway/cpython/commit/12d7c59e0564c408a65dd782339f585ab6b14b34 Sorry for my bad english -- nosy: +Illirgway versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32861