Chris Smowton added the comment: I found the same problem retrieving mail from my ISP's (unknown) POP3 server. I was sent an HTML email as one long 50KB line, which naturally broke everything.
Instead of limiting line length, I suggest you should limit total message body size, since that's what you're actually trying to defend against here. You could also either use the +OK XXX octets line to set a more conservative limit (and fail fast if it announces intent to send more than your limit). As above the workaround was to insert import poplib; poplib._MAXLINE = 1000000 at the top of the 'getmail' script. A side-note: one message that is broken this way causes all future messages to fail because poplib does not flush the connection when bailing due to a 'line too long' error. If it isn't prepared to read the rest of the incoming data, it *must* hang up the connection and re-login to fetch the next message. ---------- nosy: +Chris Smowton _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23906> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
