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On 10/03/2016 12:04, cl@isbd.net wrote:
> I have a (fairly simple) Python program that scans through a
> 'catchall' E-Mail address for things that *might* be for me.  It sends
> anything that could be for me to my main E-Mail and discards the rest.
>
> However I *occasionally* get an error from it as follows:-
>
>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>        File "/home/chris/.mutt/bin/getCatchall.py", line 65, in <module>
>          pop3.dele(i+1)
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/poplib.py", line 240, in dele
>          return self._shortcmd('DELE %s' % which)
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/poplib.py", line 160, in _shortcmd
>          return self._getresp()
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/poplib.py", line 132, in _getresp
>          resp, o = self._getline()
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/poplib.py", line 377, in _getline
>          raise error_proto('line too long')
>      poplib.error_proto: line too long
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea how I can program around this somehow?  As
> it is at the moment I have to go to the webmail system at my ISP and
> manually delete the message which is a bit of a nuisance.
>

How about a try/except in your code that catches poplib.error_proto?

-- 
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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence