What might suddenly provoke this poplib error?

[Chris Green]

Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
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> 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.
> 
After a couple of hours someone obviously fixed something and the
error has stopped now.

Thanks everyone.

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Chris Green
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