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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 15:33:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: imaplib: how to specify SSL/TLS protocol version?
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On 2014-04-09 20:20, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm not too keen on this approach, but monkey-patching the open()
> method seems to work:
> 
> def my_imap4_ssl_open(self, host = '', port = 993):
>     self.host = host
>     self.port = port
>     self.sock = socket.create_connection((host, port))
>     self.sslobj = ssl.wrap_socket(self.sock, self.keyfile,
> self.certfile, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1) self.file =
> self.sslobj.makefile('rb')
> 
> imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.open = my_imap4_ssl_open 

Our messages passed in the ether.  You don't have to feel dirty
for monkey-patching, as you can just do it with inheritance.

-tkc