[email protected] writes: > 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?
This is bug "https://bugs.python.org/issue23906";. Following a recommendation from "Laura Creighton", I work around it by import poplib; poplib._MAXLINE=50000 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
