FW: Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

Ron : use the "reply to all" button (or whatever kmail has) to keep
the replies on-list.

-D

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From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@home.com>
To: dman <dsh8290@ritvax.rit.edu>
Subject: Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 21:40:09 -0600
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On Tuesday 08 January 2002 05:34 pm, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> | On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:38 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> | > On another ISP I've got a full mailbox (around 120MB and 15000
> | > messages I think) because a spammer has faked a legitimate e-mail
> | > address of mine and used it. This means that
> | > 'lunsform3459@nisbet.compulink.co.uk' (which I had no idea was
> | > legitimate) has received many thousands of mail bounces.
> | >
> | > Is there a package that would allow me to examine JUST THE
> | > HEADERS of these mail messages, and allow me to delete chunks at
> | > a time? There may be a handful of mails in there that I want, but
> | > I don't want to download 120MB to find out!
> |
> | I'm 99.9% sure you can write something in Python.
>
> Of course you can!  :-).  (or just use telnet after reading the POP3
> RFC)

And here's the python script:
  import getpass, poplib, string
  M = poplib.POP3('mail.foobar.com')
  M.user('your.address')
  M.pass_(getpass.getpass())
  numMessages = len(M.list()[1])
  print numMessages
  x = M.list(0)
  for i in range(1, numMessages):
      print '=============================================='
      print '=============================================='
      x = M.top(i, 0)
      print i
      for y in x[1]:
          z = string.split(y, ' ')
          if z[0] in ('Date:', 'From:', 'To:', 'Subject:'):
              print z
      a = raw_input('Delete this message?')
      if a in ('Y', 'y'):
          M.dele(i)
      if a in ('Q', 'q'):
          break
  M.quit()

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