Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 28 lines --] > > On 2022-10-13 13:47:07 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > I have a short python3 program that collects E-Mails from a 'catchall' > > mailbox, sends the few that might be interesting to me and dumps the > > rest. > > > > It has suddenly (after working for some years) started throwing the > > following:- > [...] > > poplib.error_proto: b'-ERR internal server error' > [...] > > It seems to be saying that the POP3 server has a problem, > > Yes. "-ERR" is the normal start of a POP error reply, so the message > "-ERR internal server error" was sent by the POP server. > > > if so there's not much I can do about it as it's my hosting provider's > > mail server. > > You can call you hosting provider and ask them to fix the problem. > After a couple of hours someone obviously fixed something and the error has stopped now.
Thanks everyone. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
