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The following script identifies unwanted eMails and deletes them. Currently, unwanted eMails are those whose subject is the only word 'document';
After it has run, it asks if the identified mails should really be deleted and if answered with y or yes, it really deletes them.
Additionally, it looks for a file called pop-auth in the current directory and if it finds it, it reads the mail server, the username and the password from it.
use warnings;
use strict;
use Net::POP3;
my $subject_width = 50;
my $from_width = 80;
print "Mail Server: "; my $mailserver = <STDIN>;
print "Username: "; my $username = <STDIN>;
print "Password: "; my $password = <STDIN>;
chomp ($mailserver, $username, $password);
my $pop3 = Net::POP3->new($mailserver) or die "Failed to connect to $mailserver";
my $tot_msg = $pop3->login($username,$password) or die "Failed to authenticate $username";
printf("\n There are $tot_msg messages\n\n");
foreach my $msg_id (1 .. $tot_msg) {
my $header = $pop3 -> top($msg_id, 0);
my ($subject, $from, $status) = analyze_header($header);
my $delete = "";
if ($subject eq 'Document') {
$delete = 'del';
$pop3->delete($msg_id); # not really deleted until quit is called
}
printf "[%3d] %-${subject_width}s %-${from_width}s %6s %3s\n",
$msg_id,
substr($subject,0,$subject_width),
substr($from ,0,$from_width ),
$status,
$delete;
}
print "Quit and Delete?\n";
my $quit = <STDIN>; chomp $quit;
if (lc $quit eq 'y' or lc $quit eq 'yes') {
print "quitting and deleting\n";
$pop3 -> quit; # deleted messages are deleted now
}
sub analyze_header {
my $header_array_ref = shift;
my $header = join "", @$header_array_ref;
my ($subject) = $header =~ /Subject: (.*)/m;
my ($from ) = $header =~ /From: (.*)/m;
my ($status ) = $header =~ /Status: (.*)/m;
if (defined $status) {
$status = "Unread" if $status eq 'O';
$status = "Read" if $status eq 'R';
$status = "Read" if $status eq 'RO';
$status = "Ne $status = "-";w" if $status eq 'NEW';
$status = "New" if $status eq 'U';
}
else {
$status = "-";
}
return ($subject, $from, $status);
}
The Pop3 protocol is described in RFC 1939
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