Python script to delete emails from a specific sender at gmail

delete_email.py

#coding: utf-8
import imaplib
import sys

'''
Simple script that delete emails from a given sender
params:
-username: Gmail username
-pw: gmail pw
-label: If you have a label that holds the emails, specify here
-sender: the target sender you want to delete

usage: python delete_emails.py username='giovaneliberato@gmail.com' pw='bla' label='e-commerce' sender='spam@some-ecommerce.com'

see http://stackoverflow.com/a/5366205 for mode details

'''

args = dict([arg.split('=') for arg in sys.argv[1:]])

print("Logging into GMAIL with user %s\n" % args['username'])
server = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
connection_message = server.login(args['username'], args['pw'])
print(connection_message)

if args.get('label'):
    print("Using label: %s" % args['label'])
    server.select(args['label'])
else:
    print("Using inbox")
    server.select("inbox")

print("Searching emails from %s" % args['sender'])
result_status, email_ids = server.search(None, '(FROM "%s")' % args['sender'])
email_ids = email_ids[0].split()

if len(email_ids) == 0:
    print("No emails found, finishing...")

else:
    print("%d emails found, sending to trash folder..." % len(email_ids))
    server.store('1:*', '+X-GM-LABELS', '\\Trash')
    server.expunge()

print("Done!")