Method open

Lib/imaplib.py:310–319

Setup connection to remote server on "host:port" (default: localhost:standard IMAP4 port). This connection will be used by the routines: read, readline, send, shutdown.

(self, host='', port=IMAP4_PORT, timeout=None)

        return socket.create_connection(address)

    def open(self, host='', port=IMAP4_PORT, timeout=None):
        """Setup connection to remote server on "host:port"
            (default: localhost:standard IMAP4 port).
        This connection will be used by the routines:
            read, readline, send, shutdown.
        """
        self.host = host
        self.port = port
        self.sock = self._create_socket(timeout)
        self._file = self.sock.makefile('rb')


    @property