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Subject: Re: Choosing Source Address to Bind Socket to in IMAP Client
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On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:59:34 PM UTC-8, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
> brintoul at controlledthinking.com wrote:
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> > I have a multihomed machine that I would like to run the Python imaplib=
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ts source address.  How could I best do
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> One assumes by programming.
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> > Thanks for any help...
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> You are quite welcome. :)
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> On a less flippant note, maybe some links would help you=20
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> http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/imaplib/
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> http://docs.python.org/2/library/imaplib.html
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> ~Ramit
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While I appreciate your attempt at humor, this is not information which hel=
ps me.  Perhaps you are not familiar with the basics of socket programming.=
 This is all fine and dandy, and it is good to "know what you don't know". =
 If you're interested, look at the third argument to "create_connection": h=
ttp://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html