What might suddenly provoke this poplib error?
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Thu Oct 13 19:02:27 EDT 2022
MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
[snip boring code]
> >
> > It seems to be saying that the POP3 server has a problem, if so there's not
> > much I can do about it as it's my hosting provider's mail server. Is it
> > really saying the server has a problem?
> >
> As you've already ascertained that it's a server error, I'd just like to
> suggest that you add a sleep before retrying. If it has timed out after
> 5 minutes, I doubt there's much point in retrying immediately.
I guess I could do that but this has only happened once in quite a few
years so I'm not sure if I;ll bother! :-)
The program is only run half-hourly by cron.
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Chris Green
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