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.
hp
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