Getting errors from Imaplib - reloaded

2014-12-10 Thread Beatrix Willius from Moth Software
Hi, thanks to your help I can get traceback errors for the imaplib. But what about accessing direct imap errors? In the following part of my script I can't select the not-deleted mails for some reason. But how do I access the error? The debugger goes to the exception line but OSError.strerror d

Re: Getting errors from Imaplib

2014-11-30 Thread Beatrix Willius from Moth Software
On 30.11.2014, at 21:11, Chris Angelico wrote: > > 2) Network failures and auth problems should be dealt with the same > way. Change one line of code: > except (imaplib.IMAP4.error, OSError): > > Now it'll cope with OSError the same way it copes with IMAP errors. > > Does that answer your quest

Re: Getting errors from Imaplib

2014-11-30 Thread Beatrix Willius from Moth Software
Hi Chris, no, pinging Yahoo doesn't work. But this is an additional problem - perhaps I tested too often. This is one of my accounts for Imap testing and I only copied the value from Mail. For getting the error back this doesn't really matter. > import imaplib > > host = 'imap.mail.yahoo.com'

Getting errors from Imaplib

2014-11-30 Thread Beatrix Willius from Moth Software
Hi, first poster here. I still consider myself pretty much a Python newbie. Let's say I have the following very simple Python code: import imaplib host = 'imap.gmail.com' try: imap_connection = imaplib.IMAP4(host) print('success') except imaplib.IMAP4.error: print('authentication fa