Delete Junk Email from GMail in Bulk

README.md

Delete Junk Emails from you Gmail Account easily with python.

Generate Mail App Password

• Visit https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 for full guide.
• Select Mail in App and Other in Device

Configure What to delete

• Default it will delete all email which contains Custom String in subject. Change it in line 5.
• To delete all email from a specific sender, replace line 10 with typ, data = box.search(None, 'from', '[email protected]')
• To delete all unread email, replace line 10 with typ, data = box.search(None, 'UnSeen') or set value of query to UnSeen`

Run snippet with python

Use python3.8.0 or older.

python3 delete_email.py

delete_email.py

import imaplib

GmailId = "[email protected]"
AppPassword = "YourAppPassword"
query = r'(X-GM-RAW "subject:\"Custom String\"")'

box = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993)
box.login(GmailId, AppPassword)
box.select('Inbox')
typ, data = box.search(None, query)
count = 0
for num in data[0].split():
   box.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted')
   count += 1
box.expunge()
box.close()
box.logout()
print(f"Deleted {count} junk emails successfully")