Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 10/03/2016 12:04, c...@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? > ... and? I'm still stuck because I can't identify the E-Mail in any way to enable me to go and find it and delete it. So the program keeps trapping on the same E-Mail and never gets to process anything after that.
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