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+- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor 
+  raises an exception.
+
 - Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
   that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes
   to use ContextDecorator.