Cleaning your inbox, the ruby way.

mailinator.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'gmail'

def mailinate(label,emails, delete_email = false)
  puts "#{label} [#{emails.count}]"

  emails.each do |email|
    puts "  #{delete_email ? 'assasinating' : 'mailinating'} => [#{email.subject}]"
    email.mark(:read)
    email.label('mailinated') 
    if delete_email
      email.delete!
    else
      email.archive!
    end
  end
end

print "enter email: "
user = gets.strip
print "enter password: "
pw = gets.strip
Gmail.new(user,pw) do |gmail|
  mailinate('Groupon',gmail.inbox.emails(:from => '[email protected]') )
  mailinate('Living Social', gmail.inbox.emails(:from => '[email protected]') )
  mailinate('AppSumo', gmail.inbox.emails(:from => '[email protected]') )
  mailinate('Facebook', gmail.inbox.emails(:from => 'facebook') )
  mailinate('Google Calendar Notifications', gmail.inbox.emails(:from => '[email protected]') )
  mailinate('New Relic', gmail.inbox.emails(:from => '[email protected]') )
  mailinate('Homerun', gmail.inbox.emails(:from => '[email protected]') )
  mailinate('Twitter', gmail.inbox.emails(:from => 'twitter') )
  # mailinate('', gmail.inbox.emails(:from => '') )
  # ... etc ...
end