[The OP has stated that the problem has been fixed. The following are generic comments about troubleshooting.]
On 2022-10-14 11:31:56 +1300, dn wrote: > On 14/10/2022 01.47, Chris Green wrote: > > File "/usr/lib/python3.10/poplib.py", line 157, in _getresp > > raise error_proto(resp) > > poplib.error_proto: b'-ERR internal server error' ... > > 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? > > > There's a range of possibilities here. The first question to ask (as > you probably have) is "what has changed?" - has the Python/PSL on this > computer been updated*, has the computer's SSL/TLS library been > updated, etc. Then there are possible changes at 'the other end' - per > previous responses. I think this should be the second question. The first quesion is: What are the actual symptoms? In this case we have a relatively clear error message which was obviously[2] sent by the server. So anything else must[1] be consistent with this error message (and the fact that we were able to get this error message in the first place). So it can't[1] be TLS, because if you can't establish a connection, the server can't send an error message. The message also says "internal server error", and this is not something a client should be able to provoke. So it's unlikely to be anything on the client side. What's left is that there was a change or operational error on the server side, so further analysis must be conducted there. hp [1] Take absolute assertions like this with a grain of salt. There are always misleading error messages, weird edge cases, etc. But consider those only after ruling out everything else. [2] What may be obvious to one person is of course not necessarily obvious to another. -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. |_|_) | | | | | h...@hjp.at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!"
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