Hi everyone.

Today I'm trying to delete some emails from my email account and for some reason it's not deleting them. I'm using Mail::POP3 to connect and everything looks good except for deleting emails. It does connect and prints out the header and body of my emails so I know it's making contact with the server.

foreach my $to_delete (@ids)
{
   $to_delete =~ s/Message\-id:\s+//i;
   $to_delete =~ s/<//g;
   $to_delete =~ s/>//g;
   print "trying to delete $to_delete<br>";
   $pop->Delete($to_delete);
}
  $pop->Close();

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Below is what I get on my output. The first two lines are what is read from the script. I have two emails in my email account with the IDs it mentions. The second two lines are the ouput of what it is trying to delete. After every time I run the script the email IDs stay the same but the emails never delete.

I did some hacking by removing the Message-ID: from the message-id line pulled back by the module. I also removed the <>s just in case. None of these had any affect on the deletion of emails. 
Message-ID: <0016e646069637dafe049ec66ea8@google.com>
Message-ID: <90e6ba3fd257d1d9da049ec67ca9@google.com>
trying to delete 0016e646069637dafe049ec66ea8@google.com
trying to delete 90e6ba3fd257d1d9da049ec67ca9@google.com

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Can someone help me?

In reply to Can't delete emails from server by Anonymous Monk

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