[Spambayes] 'Connection timed out' problems

[Tony Meyer]

> My question is then, can this timeout setting be monitored 
> for, or maybe a larger delay set 'somewhere'? I don't even know
> if this is a problem in Python so not something you can directly
> address. I have seen this question asked recently (Aug 23rd), but
> I can't track down any answers to it.

I remember that, and I think you're right and it hasn't been addressed yet.
Would you be able to open a bug on sourceforge
<http://sf.net/projects/spambayes> with the details?  That way it will
definitely be done at some point (sometimes things just get lost in the list
traffic).

There's definitely something that can be done about it - I would think that
we should be able to catch the exception and restart the connection (passing
along an error to the mail client), if nothing else.  I think (but am not
sure; Richie would know) that we can only change the timeout if the user has
Python 2.3, but if that's the case, then we could offer it when it's
available.

=Tony Meyer