POP connection timeout.

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 08 May 2008 09:24:37 -0300, Aspersieman <aspersieman at gmail.com> escribió:

> I have written an application that queries a POP mailbox and
> downloads messages. When the application tries to connect to the mail
> server, but takes too long (eg. longer than 60 seconds) I want to have
> it time out.
>
> Something like
>
> try:
>    pop = poplib.POP3(POPHOST, POPPORT)
> except someerror, err:
>    print "Connecting to mail box has timed out:\n", err
>
> I know that in python 2.5 I could pass an additional timeout parameter
> to the above statement ( ie: pop = poplib.POP3(POPHOST, POPPORT,
> TIMEOUTINSECONDS), but I am using python 2.4.

Use socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout_in_seconds) before you create the POP3 object; this value will be used by the initial connect. Once it is connected, you can set a different timeout for retrieving mail using pop.sock.settimeout(...)
Note that setdefaulttimeout applies to ALL subsequent socket operations, not only using poplib.
<http://docs.python.org/lib/socket-objects.html>

-- 
Gabriel Genellina