What might suddenly provoke this poplib error?

[Chris Green]

MRAB <python at 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
·