> I just tried this and it failed with IP addresses but not > hostnames/machine names, try it again with the server name. :)
Nope, same problem. I think TJG might be right, and our server probably doesn't have IMAP running (yet). > Depends how secure you need it to be. For my simple stuff I just do > something like this > [snip] That's a nice thought, although the pw is still pretty visible. Maybe there's a way to encode/decode it using some sort of key (that only I know), that produces a truly unrecognisable pw? Thanks for the input, g -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list