py3-mailbox changes are not in branch yet, so not related.
From the failing test log i could see signs of relatively slow storage responses (couple 4KB r/w in 1.65, 1.77 seconds, while others take less than a second), so the test timeout could result from slow response times.
2019-11-11 09:23:17,699 DEBUG (mailbox-spm) [storage.Misc.excCmd] SUCCESS: <err> = '1+0 records in\n1+0 records out\n40960 bytes (41 kB, 40 KiB) copied, 1.65805 s, 24.7 kB/s\n'; <rc> = 0 (commands:202)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,702 DEBUG (mailbox-spm) [storage.MailBox.SpmMailMonitor] SPM_MailMonitor: Mailbox 7 validated, checking mail (mailbox:644)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,703 DEBUG (mailbox-spm) [storage.MailBox.SpmMailMonitor] SPM_MailMonitor: processing request: '1xtnd\xe1_\xfeeT\x8a\x18\xb3\xe0JT\xe5^\xc8\xdb\x8a_Z%\xd8\xfcs.\xa4\xc3C\xbb>\xc6\xf1r\xd7000000000000006400000000000' (mailbox:681)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,715 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.ThreadPool] Number of running tasks: 1 (threadPool:60)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,715 INFO (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.ThreadPool.WorkerThread] START task 575a47fe-8b8b-465e-8bd7-80b31f09af69 (cmd=<function runTask at 0x7fbf67324b18>, args=(<function spm_callback at 0x7fbf647a7140>, 449, '1xtnd\xe1_\xfeeT\x8a\x18\xb3\xe0JT\xe5^\xc8\xdb\x8a_Z%\xd8\xfcs.\xa4\xc3C\xbb>\xc6\xf1r\xd7000000000000006400000000000')) (threadPool:208)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,717 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.TaskManager.Task] (Task='25518496-f685-40b9-b04b-8b50d1f26095') moving from state init -> state preparing (task:610)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,718 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.TaskManager.Task] (Task='25518496-f685-40b9-b04b-8b50d1f26095') finished: None (task:1214)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,721 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.TaskManager.Task] (Task='25518496-f685-40b9-b04b-8b50d1f26095') moving from state preparing -> state finished (task:610)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,721 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.ResourceManager.Owner] Owner.releaseAll requests {} resources {} (resourceManager:913)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,722 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.ResourceManager.Owner] Owner.cancelAll requests {} (resourceManager:950)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,722 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.TaskManager.Task] (Task='25518496-f685-40b9-b04b-8b50d1f26095') ref 0 aborting False (task:1012)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,722 INFO (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.ThreadPool.WorkerThread] FINISH task 575a47fe-8b8b-465e-8bd7-80b31f09af69 (threadPool:210)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,723 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/0) [storage.ThreadPool] Number of running tasks: 0 (threadPool:60)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,907 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/4) [root] FINISH thread <Thread(mailbox-spm/4, started daemon 140459389220608)> (concurrent:196)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,918 DEBUG (mailbox-spm/3) [root] FINISH thread <Thread(mailbox-spm/3, started daemon 140459741517568)> (concurrent:196)
2019-11-11 09:23:17,923 DEBUG (mailbox-hsm) [storage.Misc.excCmd] SUCCESS: <err> = '1+0 records in\n1+0 records out\n4096 bytes (4.1 kB, 4.0 KiB) copied, 1.77794 s, 2.3 kB/s\n'; <rc> = 0 (commands:202)