poplib's POP3_SSL not downloading latest email

[Sam Chats]

On Sat, 08 Jul 2017 20:08:12 +1000, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 06:48 pm, Sm Chats wrote:
> 
> > I have a small script which checks whether a mail sent by me to myself(i.e
> > delivered to myself) has the same body as the sent message. The problem is
> > that the sent message (sent by SMTP) isn't received by the POP3_SSL object I'm
> > using. It shows mails from more than a month ago. I'm unable to figure out
> > what's wrong. Please help me in correcting the code. Thanks in advance. ð\x9f\x99\x8f
> > 
> > Here's the script:
> > https://github.com/schedutron/CPAP/blob/master/Chap3/myMail.py
> 
> Are you sure the mail is delivered?
> 
> You wait five seconds for the mail to be delivered, but email can take up to 48
> hours (by default) before delivery times out. Maybe it hasn't arrived yet.
> 
> Or maybe it is being blocked as spam. If you are running this script dozens of
> times, Gmail might think you are spamming and block delivery. You should
> separate the script which sends a new message from the one that retrieves the
> message, so you aren't spamming your account and making Gmail mad.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> â\x80\x9cCheer up,â\x80\x9d they said, â\x80\x9cthings could be worse.â\x80\x9d So I cheered up, and sure
> enough, things got worse.
> 

Thanks, but I can see my sent mails on the Gmail app on my phone. So the emails are indeed getting delivered. The problem is that
POP shows me emails from about a month ago, and I've received potentially hundreds of emails after that. So it's a receiving problem.

Cheers,
Sam