[issue16041] poplib: unlimited readline() from connection

[Ingo Ruhnke]

Ingo Ruhnke added the comment:

This "fix" has broken mail retrieval from both gmx.de, gmail.com and plenty of other provider.

It manifests in getmail as:

Retrieval error: server for BrokenUIDLPOP3SSLRetriever:1860228 at pop.gmx.net:995 is broken; offered message 239 but failed to provide it.  Please notify the administrator of the server.  Skipping message...

After setting the _MAXLINE in /usr/lib/python2.7/poplib.py to something higher everything was working again.

See issue #23906

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nosy: +Ingo Ruhnke

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