Mass Delete Imap Email (Python3 Script)

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credentials.py
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README.md

Mass Delete Imap Email (Python3 Script)

Sometimes you just want to clean up a very full imap mailbox programmatically. This Python3 script might help.

Be careful. With great power comes great responsibility.

You have to add a file named credentials.py for this to work. It should look like this:

credentials=dict(user="username",password="password")

... and it should contain your username and password. Then, configure the hostname in imapdel.py.

credentials_example.py

credentials=dict(user="username",password="password")

imapdel.py

import imaplib

from credentials import credentials


with imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmx.net") as M :
    M.login(credentials["user"], credentials["password"])
    M.select()
    typ, data = M.search(None, 'NOT TO virtel@gmx.net BEFORE 01-jan-2013')
    for num in data[0].split()[:10000]:
        M.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted')
        print(f"{num} ... deleted ")
        #typ, data = M.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
        #print(data)
    M.expunge()