[New-bugs-announce] [issue38615] imaplib has no timeout setting

[Jairo Llopis]

New submission from Jairo Llopis <yajo.sk8 at gmail.com>:

No way to pass a timeout to imaplib.IMAP4 or imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.

When opening the connection, the only way is to use socket.settimeout(), which affects the global execution environment.

It's interesting that poplib includes the needed timeout parameter instead... weird. I think it was forgotten for imaplib.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 355542
nosy: Jairo Llopis
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: imaplib has no timeout setting
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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