POP connection timeout.

[Aspersieman]

Hi All

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.

Can anyone help me implement this timeout functionality.

Regards

Nicol
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