delete email via imap

delete-emails.py

import datetime
import email
import sys
import imaplib


m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("email.domain.com", 993)
try:
    m.login("user","abcxyz")
except Exception, e:
    print e
    sys.exit(1)
print "------------- logged in"
try:
    m.select()
except Exception, e:
    print e
    sys.exit(1)

print "------------- selected Inbox folder"
since = (datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(30)).strftime("%d-%b-%Y")
print "------------- searching for messages since %s " % (since)

#typ, data = m.search(None, '(SENTSINCE {0})'.format(since))
typ, data = m.search(None, 'ALL')
print "------------- search done, found", len(data[0].split()), "items"
checked = 0
removed = 0
for num in data[0].split()[::-1]:
    checked += 1
    typ, data = m.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
    msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])
    From = msg['From']
    if From and 'user@domain' not in From:
        continue
    #date_tuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(msg['Date'])
    #print num, msg['From'], date_tuple, msg['To']
    m.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted')
    removed += 1

   if checked % 500 == 0: #or removed % 100 == 0:
        print "------------- checked = %d, removed = %d" % (checked, removed)

    if removed >= 2500:
        break

print "------------- done deleting"

try:
    m.expunge()
    print "------------- done expunging"
except Exception, e:
    print e

try:
    m.close()
except Exception, e:
    print e

m.logout()
print 'removed =', removed