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20 years ago If you do socket.setdefaulttimeout(X) before trying to instantiate imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(), the connection hangs partway through the SSL negotiation.
The cause is that socket.ssl() is actually incompatible with timeouts (not sure why) and IMAP4_SSL() doesn't do anything to guard against it. It should do .setblocking(1) on the socket.socket object before passing it to socket.ssl().
The documentation should also clarify timeouts not working with socket.ssl.
brettcannon
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