add some nicer error handling

screenless/bureau/mailroom/mailroom.py

@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ class MailRoom(Bureau):
             self.imapserv = imapclient.IMAPClient(self.host, use_uid=True, ssl=self.imap_ssl)
             self.imapserv.login(self.login, self.password)
             self.imapserv.select_folder("INBOX")
+        except self.imapserv.Error as err:
+            self.log.debug("IMAP connection error: %err", err)
+            self.smprint("IMAP connection error: " + str(err))
+
 
     def _make_msg_object(self, imap_id, resp_obj):
         """

screenless/bureau/publications/publications.py

@@ -147,8 +147,13 @@ class Publications(Bureau):
         try:
             resp = requests.get(url, timeout=20.0, headers=headers)
         except requests.ReadTimeout:
-            self.log.warning("Timeout reading RSS feed %s", url)
-            return  # TODO: do we need to spit out an error?
+            self.log.warning("Timeout reading url %s", url)
+            self.print_small("Error: timed out reading " + url)
+            return  
+        except requests.ConnectionError as e:
+            self.log.warning("Error reading url %s", url)
+            self.print_small("Error: connect error on " + url)
+            return  
 
         # re-render with readability
         doc = readability.Document(resp.text,