En Thu, 08 May 2008 09:24:37 -0300, Aspersieman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> I have written an application that queries a POP mailbox and > downloads messages. When the application tries to connect to the mail > server, but takes too long (eg. longer than 60 seconds) I want to have > it time out. > > Something like > > try: > pop = poplib.POP3(POPHOST, POPPORT) > except someerror, err: > print "Connecting to mail box has timed out:\n", err > > I know that in python 2.5 I could pass an additional timeout parameter > to the above statement ( ie: pop = poplib.POP3(POPHOST, POPPORT, > TIMEOUTINSECONDS), but I am using python 2.4. 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> -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
