On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Beatrix Willius from Moth Software <m...@beatrixwillius.de> wrote: > > Let's say I have the following very simple Python code: > > import imaplib > > host = 'imap.gmail.com' > try: > imap_connection = imaplib.IMAP4(host) > print('success') > except imaplib.IMAP4.error: > print('authentication failed') > > OSError: [Errno 65] No route to host
You're getting an error before it even gets as far as authenticating - there's a network-level issue here. Are you able to ping that host? Something's not connected. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list