[New-bugs-announce] [issue24706] poplib: Line too long error causes knock-on failure to retrieve all subsequent messages

[Chris Smowton]

New submission from Chris Smowton:

As mentioned in #23906, when poplib bails from receiving a message with a 'line too long' error it neither flushes nor re-establishes the TCP connection. This means that subsequent commands fail because instead of the expected response we receive part of the unflushed data from the message that triggered the original error.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 247283
nosy: Chris Smowton
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: poplib: Line too long error causes knock-on failure to retrieve all subsequent messages
versions: Python 2.7

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