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Hello,

I cannot manage to use socket timeouts with an imap ssl connector,and i
badly *need* it :'(

I have already mentionned it here:
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/...390efe.en.html

Does anyone have a solution ?

(I thought of coding my own threaded timer over the ssl socket, but...)


Tarek

Traceback:

>>> from imaplib import IMAP4_SSL, IMAP4_SSL_PORT
>>> import socket
>>> test = IMAP4_SSL('mail.xxxx.com', 993)
>>> test.sock.settimeout(10)
>>> test.login('xxx@xxx', 'password')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, *in* ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/imaplib.py", line 480, *in* login
typ, dat = self._simple_command('LOGIN', user, self._quote(password))
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/imaplib.py", line 1028, *in* _simple_command
*return* self._command_complete(name, self._command(name, *args))
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/imaplib.py", line 858, *in* _command_complete
typ, data = self._get_tagged_response(tag)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/imaplib.py", line 959, *in* _get_tagged_response
self._get_response()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/imaplib.py", line 876, *in* _get_response
resp = self._get_line()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/imaplib.py", line 969, *in* _get_line
line = self.readline()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/imaplib.py", line 1135, *in* readline
char = self.sslobj.read(1)
socket.sslerror: The read operation timed out
>>> test = IMAP4_SSL('mail.xxxx.com', 993)
>>> test.login('xxx@xxx', 'password')
('OK', ['LOGIN Ok.'])

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