Index: nntpdup.py
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--- nntpdup.py
+++ nntpdup.py
@@ -5,11 +5,18 @@
 nntplib._MAXLINE = 1024 * 1024
 
 config = configparser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value = True)
 config.read('nntpdup.conf')
 
-server = nntplib.NNTP_SSL(config['connection']['newsserver'])
+try:
+	server = nntplib.NNTP_SSL(config['connection']['newsserver'])
+except nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError as err:
+	if err.response.startswith('400 load at '):
+		print(err.response)
+		exit(0)
+	else:
+		raise(err)
 mserver = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(config['connection']['mailserver'])
 reMessageId = re.compile('(<[-\][a-zA-Z0-9@.%/=_\$+!&~#\?}]+>)"?\)\)(\d+ \(FLAGS\(\)\))?$')
 mserver.login(config['connection']['mail_user'], config['connection']['mail_password'])
 if 'mail_limit' in config['connection']:
 	mailLimit = int(config['connection']['mail_limit'])