poplib - retr() getting stuck

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:37:32 -0300, Roopesh <roopesh.raj at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> I am using poplib's retr() to fetch mails from my gmail account. It
> works fine, in some cases it gets stuck inside the retr() method and
> does not come out.

Probably the server stopped responding. By default, sockets have no  
timeout value set - that is, a recv() call may block forever.
Try using socket.setdefaulttimeout  
<http://docs.python.org/lib/module-socket.html> before creating the  
connection, or search this group for past responses to this same problem.

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Gabriel Genellina