Issue #4473: Add a POP3.capa() method to query the capabilities advertised by the POP3 server.

Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.

Lib/poplib.py

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ class POP3:
             APOP name digest        apop(name, digest)
             TOP msg n               top(msg, n)
             UIDL [msg]              uidl(msg = None)
+            CAPA                    capa()
 
     Raises one exception: 'error_proto'.
 
@@ -322,6 +323,35 @@ class POP3:
             return self._shortcmd('UIDL %s' % which)
         return self._longcmd('UIDL')
 
+
+    def capa(self):
+        """Return server capabilities (RFC 2449) as a dictionary
+        >>> c=poplib.POP3('localhost')
+        >>> c.capa()
+        {'IMPLEMENTATION': ['Cyrus', 'POP3', 'server', 'v2.2.12'],
+         'TOP': [], 'LOGIN-DELAY': ['0'], 'AUTH-RESP-CODE': [],
+         'EXPIRE': ['NEVER'], 'USER': [], 'STLS': [], 'PIPELINING': [],
+         'UIDL': [], 'RESP-CODES': []}
+        >>>
+
+        Really, according to RFC 2449, the cyrus folks should avoid
+        having the implementation splitted into multiple arguments...
+        """
+        def _parsecap(line):
+            lst = line.decode('ascii').split()
+            return lst[0], lst[1:]
+
+        caps = {}
+        try:
+            resp = self._longcmd('CAPA')
+            rawcaps = resp[1]
+            for capline in rawcaps:
+                capnm, capargs = _parsecap(capline)
+                caps[capnm] = capargs
+        except error_proto as _err:
+            raise error_proto('-ERR CAPA not supported by server')
+        return caps
+
 try:
     import ssl
 except ImportError: