Cannot connect to IMAP server in Python 3.2

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:13:55 -0700, Steve Howell wrote:

> On Apr 4, 9:49 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> I can connect to an IMAP server using Python 2.6:
>>
>> steve at runes:~$ python2.6
>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>> information.>>> import imaplib
>> >>> server = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('xxxxx')
>> >>> print server
>>
>> <imaplib.IMAP4_SSL instance at 0xb7183c4c>
>>
>> But when I try with Python 3.2, it just sits there until it times out:
>>
>> steve at runes:~$ python3.2
>> Python 3.2.2 (default, Feb 29 2012, 18:11:33) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>> information.>>> import imaplib
>> >>> server = imaplib.IMAP4('xxxxx', imaplib.IMAP4_SSL_PORT)
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> [...]
>> socket.timeout: timed out
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>
> Is it simply the wrong port?  (IMAP4_SSL_PORT vs. IMAP4_PORT)

No, it is the correct port, 993.


> How long do you wait before seeing the timeout?

Indefinitely. 


> Have you tried print-debugging within your local copy of imaplib.py? The
> code related to making the connection just wraps
> socket.create_connection:

I'm not going to start debugging the standard library until after I'm 
satisfied that I'm not doing something wrong.


-- 
Steven