Choosing Source Address to Bind Socket to in IMAP Client

[Prasad, Ramit]

brintoul at controlledthinking.com wrote:
> > > I have a multihomed machine that I would like to run the Python imaplib's IMAP4 client on.  I would like to be
> > > able to specify which interface the underlying socket will bind to as its source address.  How could I best do
> > > this?
[snip]

> While I appreciate your attempt at humor, this is not information which helps me.  Perhaps you are not familiar
> with the basics of socket programming. This is all fine and dandy, and it is good to "know what you don't know".
> If you're interested, look at the third argument to "create_connection":
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html

Apologies, I misread your question. 

According to the imaplib docs, you can subclass IMAP4 and override 
`IMAP4.open` to create the socket and bind it to the desired interface.
You could also connect using IMAP4 and then close/reopen the socket
inside the IMAP4 connection object. 


I hope that is more help,
Ramit


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