Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > One could then continue processing, sending new transactions to the POP > server and getting responses.
That's optimistic. You don't know how much data has been lost in readline(). Sure, again your test server, it happens to work :) But again other kinds of failing servers, your protocol session would end up confused. So the only robust option is the following: > tearing down the > connection and rebuilding it, and restarting the POP processing from > the beginning ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7322> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
