Re: Selective remote mail deletion
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 23:09 +0000, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 22:05 +0000, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Hi again,
> > >
> > > does anybody know of a utility/package that would perform what I'm
> > > looking for?
> > > Would like to be able to remotely and selectively delete messages while
> > > they are still on the server without launching the mail client or at
> > > least without fully logging in and downloading all new messages.
> > > Similar to the remote functionality offered by Foxmail on Windows since
> > > many years, and I hear since recently in Outlook as well...
> > >
> > > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
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> 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.
> >
>
> Thank you for your script. Seems like a good answer, I will give it a
> try.
Glad I could help. But I've got to ask: what problem are you trying
to solve by pre-deleting files?
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