imaplib is not IPv6-capable

[dmorr]

BPO	1655
Nosy	@rhettinger, @pitrou
Files	imaplib_ipv6.patch imaplib_ipv6.patch

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closed_at = <Date 2009-05-15.11:50:57.220>
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labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'imaplib is not IPv6-capable'
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[dmorr]

imaplib.IMAP4 and IMAP4_SSL do not use IPv6-capable name resolution
APIs. Attached is a patch (lifted from httplib) that enables IPv6 in
their open() methods.

[dmorr]

I think it makes more sense to use socket.create_connection(), which
performs the getaddrinfo call. It makes the patch against imaplib more
compact. I've attached a new patch that uses create_connection()

[rhettinger]

AP, this is basically the same patch as the one for nntplib. Do you
want to apply it also?

[pitrou]

Committed in r72662, thanks!