Deleting IMAP mail from shell script

[Wil Cooley]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 16:35 -0600, Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:
> I have a simple question concerning mail deletion in Cyrus mailboxes. I 
> have spamassassin set up, with two mailboxes "spam at domain.com" and 
> "notspam at domain.com". A shell script runs periodicly and parses these 
> messages (sa-learn compiles training data from the messages). After that 
> parsing is done, it needs to empty the mailboxes.
> 
> I was going to add a "rm" command, but I'm thinking that will cause data 
> corruption with cyrus.
> 
> Is there a better way to do this?

Fiddling directly with the Cyrus mail spool is a bad thing.  Here's a
script I wrote to do what you want, except for the 'notspam' part:

http://haus.nakedape.cc/svn/public/trunk/small-projects/mail-utils/bayesuck/

You'll also need the simaplib.py from the parent directory.

Wil
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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc
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