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Batch delete all email from POP server via Python #

#! /usr/bin/env python
import poplib
M = poplib.POP3_SSL("mail.example.com", 995)
M.user("[email protected]")
M.pass_("password")
for i in range(M.stat()[0], 0, -1):
  M.dele(i)
M.quit()

• To prompt for the password rather than storing it in the script, change ("password") to (getpass.getpass()) and add import getpass.

• See also Batch delete all email from IMAP Inbox in iOS.

• Sources & Additional Examples:

  • Deleting email from a mail server with Python

  • gmail-importer3

  • Sean Vinsick's comment on Using Telnet to Delete Mass Amounts of E-mail

  • poplib documentation: "On most servers deletions are not actually performed until QUIT (the major exception is Eudora QPOP, which deliberately violates the RFCs by doing pending deletes on any disconnect)."

  • Delete All Messages From A POP3 Account

  • delPopMail.py

  • empty_pop3_account.py

  • PopAndTweet.py

  • Pythonでメール受信

/nix | Aug 04, 2020

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