MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: [snip boring code] > > > > It seems to be saying that the POP3 server has a problem, if so there's not > > much I can do about it as it's my hosting provider's mail server. Is it > > really saying the server has a problem? > > > As you've already ascertained that it's a server error, I'd just like to > suggest that you add a sleep before retrying. If it has timed out after > 5 minutes, I doubt there's much point in retrying immediately.
I guess I could do that but this has only happened once in quite a few years so I'm not sure if I;ll bother! :-) The program is only run half-hourly by cron. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list