How to program round this poplib error?

[cl at isbd.net]

Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/03/2016 12:04, cl at 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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Chris Green
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