c...@isbd.net wrote: > I have a (fairly) simple script that does 'catchall' processing on my > POP3 mailbox. It looks for messages To: strings that *might* be for > me and then throws everything else away. > [snip]
Sorry folks, I found the problem, it's a known 'bug' due to someone trying to protect poplib from excessively long lines. See:- https://bugs.python.org/issue16041 It's easy to work around by something like:- import poplib poplib._MAXLINE=20480 -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list