Re: Selective remote mail deletion

["B.Hoffmann" <dark.project@virgin.net>]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 16:52 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> Depending on how comfortable you are with the command line, you
> could run this program:
> 
> $ python popdel.py <your.ISP's.pop> <your_username>
> 
> It asks you for a password, then displays From, Subj & Date and
> asks you if you want to delete it.
> 

Hi Ron, I am getting following error running it:


File "popdel.py", line 18
    from_pattern = re.compile("^from\:")
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


Any ideas?


Kind Regards,
B.Hoffmann

Linux User #398054