Hi Chris, no, pinging Yahoo doesn't work. But this is an additional problem - perhaps I tested too often. This is one of my accounts for Imap testing and I only copied the value from Mail.
For getting the error back this doesn't really matter. > import imaplib > > host = 'imap.mail.yahoo.com' > try: > imap_connection = imaplib.IMAP4(host) > print('success') > except imaplib.IMAP4.error: > print('authentication failed') > On 30.11.2014, at 13:02, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You're getting an error before it even gets as far as authenticating - > there's a network-level issue here. Are you able to ping that host? > Something's not connected. Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Regards Trixi Willius http://www.mothsoftware.com Mail Archiver X: The email archiving solution for professionals -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list