POP connection timeout.

Aspersieman aspersieman at gmail.com
Thu May 8 08:57:53 EDT 2008


Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> 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>
>
>   
Fantastic! This works thanks.

Nicol

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