smtplib timeout

Stuart D. Gathman stuart at bmsi.com
Tue Jul 25 13:24:11 EDT 2006


On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:21:40 -0700, Alan Kennedy wrote:

> [Stuart D. Gathman]
>> I need to set a timelimit for the operation of
>> smtplib.sendmail.  It has to be thread based, because pymilter uses
>> libmilter which is thread based.
> 
> Have you tried setting a default socket timeout, which applies to all
> socket operations?

Does this apply to all threads, is it inherited when creating threads, or
does each thread need to specify it separately?

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