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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: How to program round this poplib error? |
| Date | 2016-03-10 12:30 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.124.1457613123.15725.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
| References | <nf48rc-ncl.ln1@esprimo.zbmc.eu> |
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
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How to program round this poplib error? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-10 12:04 +0000
Re: How to program round this poplib error? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-10 12:30 +0000
Re: How to program round this poplib error? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-10 14:07 +0000
Re: How to program round this poplib error? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2016-03-10 13:23 +0000
Re: How to program round this poplib error? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-10 14:09 +0000
Re: How to program round this poplib error? dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2016-03-11 10:06 +0100
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