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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:47:55 +1100
Subject: Re: Choosing Source Address to Bind Socket to in IMAP Client
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:14 AM,  <brintoul@controlledthinking.com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have a multihomed machine that I would like to run the Python imaplib's IMAP4 client on.  I would like to be able to specify which interface the underlying socket will bind to as its source address.  How could I best do this?

You're referring to this function?

http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/imaplib.html#imaplib.IMAP4

The docs suggest that you can simply pass it a parameter to specify
the address to bind to. (Note that you bind to addresses, not
interfaces. Figuring out which interface has which address is a
separate issue.)

ChrisA