Re: Selective remote mail deletion

[Justin Guerin <justin_guerin@yahoo.com>]

B.Hoffmann wrote:

> 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

I don't see that anyone told you what's wrong with the script.  Add a
closing parenthesis to the line above, line 17, that currently looks like:
M.pass_(getpass.getpass('POP password: ')
to make it look like this:
M.pass_(getpass.getpass('POP password: '))

Justin