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On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:41:58 PM UTC-8, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
> brintoul at controlledthinking.com wrote:
> 
> Apologies, I misread your question. 
> 
> 
> 
> According to the imaplib docs, you can subclass IMAP4 and override 
> 
> `IMAP4.open` to create the socket and bind it to the desired interface.
> 
> You could also connect using IMAP4 and then close/reopen the socket
> 
> inside the IMAP4 connection object. 
> 
> I hope that is more help,
> 
> Ramit
> 

Thanks, yes, that helps!  Just out of curiosity, can you give me a quick link to the docs you are looking at?  I'm not seeing anything which gets very specific in the docs for Python 2.7 at docs.python.org ...