Socket Timeout and SMTP

[Tim Williams]

(python newbie)

Is it possible to individually set the socket timeout of a connection
created by smtplib, rather than use the socket.setdefaulttimeout() value
used by the rest of the prog/script?

eg:

import smtplib
import (other stuff)

socket.setdefaulttimeout(90)

class class1():
..
..
smtp_client( some vals )
..

class class2():
..
..
smtp_client( some vals )
..

def smtp_client(mx, from, to_list, msg):
server = smtplib.SMTP(mx)
(set socket timeout to XX)
failed = mxserver.sendmail(from, to_list , msg)
...
...
def Start():
.....
if __name__ == '__main__':
Start()
TIA

Tim