[python-win32] imap mail parsing - forms of socket timeout/EOF errors

[jacob kruger]

Hi there


Know haven't posted on this list for a little while now, but, thought 
may as well ask if any of you guys have an idea about what seems to be a 
pretty common issue, but, with no specific, or consistent workarounds 
that am finding mention of via various google searches, etc.


Effectively, if trying to use either the imaplib, or the poplib modules 
to query a remote mail server inbox, to then parse the mail messages 
contents, to insert them into a postgresql database, for more efficient 
querying/referencing, I am, at times - not consistently at all - 
receiving one of the two following messages, depending on which 
protocol/client I was trying to make use of:-


the error message/exception information am getting from imap is the 
following:
imaplib.IMAP4.abort: command: FETCH => socket error: EOF

the pop3 error message is the following:
poplib.error_proto: -ERR EOF


For example, if just run same code against my one test server, with just 
100 messages in the inbox, it works fine every time on both protocols, 
but, when try run it against the live mailbox, which has over 2 million 
mails in it, this happens on a regular, if inconsistent basis when you 
try retrieving specific messages each time, based on their server-side 
UID/ID.


So, just wondering if anyone has come across things like this before, 
has ideas about implementing a form of timeout, or connection renewal, 
or if you have ideas about additional resources could try making use of 
instead for this type of thing - main thing is want to be able to, 
initially at least, just parse all the mail contents, updating the 
database on a repeated basis, since this inbox receives a lot of e-mails 
every hour/day, and, possibly, later on, be able to retrieve or interact 
with mail messages as well?


Thanks in advance


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Jacob Kruger
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