Christian Heimes added the comment:
As this counts as a new feature it can't be implemented in Python 2.7. Only
fixes are applied to 2.7. You have to roll your own subclass that overwrites
starttls() or _get_socket(). I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Starting with Python 3.3 the methods suppor
New submission from YS:
Currently, smtplib is not able to connect to hotmail, giving an SSL version
error (at least on some platfroms). See
http://stackoverflow.com/q/17434143/429850 and
http://stackoverflow.com/q/17011816/429850. Perhaps there should be an option
like smtplib.SMTP(ssl_versio
