Re: IMAP4_SSL and OpenSSL compatibility

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Date	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:57:41 +0100
From	"W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: IMAP4_SSL and OpenSSL compatibility
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Quoting "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis@pitrou.net>:
> W. Martin Borgert <debacle <at> debian.org> writes:
>> When I add an ssl_version argument to the call to
>> ssl.wrap_socket() in imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.open(), I can connect to
>> the Exchange server without problems:
>>
>> self.sslobj = ssl.wrap_socket(self.sock, self.keyfile, self.certfile,
>>                               ssl_version = ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3)
>>
>> Would it make sense, to make this change in the Python standard
>> library?
>
> There is already the ssl_context option for that:
> http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/imaplib.html#imaplib.IMAP4_SSL

Many thanks! Two more questions:

  1. Is there any plan to backport this Python >= 3.3 feature to
     Python 2?

  2. Would the following lines be correct for Python 3.3?

     >>> import imaplib
     >>> IMAP4_SSL("192.168.1.1.", ssl_context =  
SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3))

Cheers

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Re: IMAP4_SSL and OpenSSL compatibility "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2013-02-26 17:57 +0100
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