commit c47aa6e56fddead101c96238e35d7037aaaff092 Author: David Fifield <david@bamsoftware.com> Date: Thu Oct 18 09:44:33 2012 -0700 Put imap_login inside the exception block with imap_loop. I got an error that crashed the poller when it got disconnected and tried to reconnect: 2012-10-18 05:37:28 lost server connection: command: SELECT => socket error: EOF 2012-10-18 05:37:28 logging in as flashproxyreg.a@gmail.com Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/facilitator-email-poller", line 358, in <module> imap = imap_login() File "/usr/local/bin/facilitator-email-poller", line 333, in imap_login imap.login(options.email_addr, email_password) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 498, in login typ, dat = self._simple_command('LOGIN', user, self._quote(password)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 1060, in _simple_command return self._command_complete(name, self._command(name, *args)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 893, in _command_complete self._check_bye() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 808, in _check_bye raise self.abort(bye[-1]) imaplib.abort: [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary System Error We want to reconnect in this case. The rate limiter will make sure we don't retry too fast if it is a persistent error. --- facilitator/facilitator-email-poller | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/facilitator/facilitator-email-poller b/facilitator/facilitator-email-poller index 8bb90ca..e9c5d3a 100755 --- a/facilitator/facilitator-email-poller +++ b/facilitator/facilitator-email-poller @@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ class RateLimit(object): login_limit = RateLimit() while True: - imap = imap_login() try: + imap = imap_login() imap_loop(imap) except imaplib.IMAP4.abort, e: # Try again after a disconnection.