Deletemail

Overview

deletemail is a non-interactive tool for removing mail which is older than a configurable number of days from one or more IMAP mailboxes. By default, mail which is not marked as seen on the server will not be deleted. If, for example, fetchmail is used for receiving mail from an IMAP server, deletemail might be useful, since fetchmail deletes mail either immediately or not at all. Thus, you could use fetchmails keep option (so that fetchmail never deletes anything) and let deletemail handle the removal of mail. Currently, the IMAP4 and IMAP4rev1 protocols are supported, optionally using SSL/TLS for secure IMAP connections.

Documentation

Please see the README file for quick installation and usage instructions.

Download

Stable Release

deletemail-0.5.tar.gz [released 2006-04-10]
Debian/i386 package (done by grml)
Mac OS X port (done by DarwinPorts)

Old Releases

deletemail-0.4.tar.gz [released 2005-01-24]
deletemail-0.3.tar.gz [released 2005-01-02]
deletemail-0.2.tar.gz [released 2004-12-22]
deletemail-0.1.tar.gz [released 2004-12-09]

Packages/Ports

If you want to be informed about new deletemail releases, you can subscribe to this project on freshmeat. You will then receive an e-mail as soon as a new deletemail release is available, including a short summary of the changes.

Feedback

Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you encounter any problems with or have any comments on deletemail.

Last modified: $Date: 2009/03/13 13:10:00 $ by Holger Weiß