mail test: catch typical connecting errors and display nicer output

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Joshua Tauberer 2014-06-04 17:13:06 -04:00
parent fff06f7d71
commit d6e6cfd3c9

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@ -12,8 +12,18 @@ host, emailaddress, pw = sys.argv[1:4]
# Attempt to login with IMAP. Our setup uses email addresses
# as IMAP/SMTP usernames.
try:
M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(host)
M.login(emailaddress, pw)
except OSError as e:
print("Connection error:", e)
sys.exit(1)
except imaplib.IMAP4.error as e:
# any sort of login error
e = ", ".join(a.decode("utf8") for a in e.args)
print("IMAP error:", e)
sys.exit(1)
M.select()
print("IMAP login is OK.")