I get a lot of spam. :( Unfortunately, much of this spam is not the good old 4-5k message trying to sell something...many contain attachments in the 80-150k size range. Add to this the facts that I still live off a dialup line and my mail client (the otherwise amazing sylpheed) does not filter at the POP3 level and it's clear that I need to do something about it. Hence this python applet. It uses poplib to connect to a POP3 server, list messages greater than a given size (default is 50k), and then prompt for which messages to delete. It's been pretty handy for me.
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# 2002-05-19 - fsf
# last modified: 2002-06-16
import sys, re, string
import poplib
from poplib import *
pop_host = 'insert_pop3_server_here'
pop_user = 'insert_username_here'
pop_pass = 'insert_password_here'
filter_size = 50000
if len (sys.argv) > 1:
filter_size = sys.argv[1]
p = POP3 (pop_host)
p.user (pop_user)
p.pass_ (pop_pass)
[msgs, psize] = p.stat ()
if msgs < 1:
print 'No messages found in mailbox ... exiting!'
sys.exit (0)
else:
print msgs, 'found with a total size of', psize, 'octets...'
re_from = re.compile ("^From:")
re_to = re.compile ("^To:")
re_subject = re.compile ("^Subject:")
filtered = []
for pid in range (1, msgs + 1):
h_from = h_to = h_subject = ''
list_fields = string.split (p.list (pid))
size = list_fields[2]
if int (size) < int (filter_size):
continue
filtered.append (pid)
top = p.top (pid, 0)
headers = top[1]
for line in headers:
if re_from.match (line):
h_from = line
elif re_to.match (line):
h_to = line
elif re_subject.match (line):
h_subject = line
print 'Message %d (%s octets)' % (pid, size)
print h_from
print h_to
print h_subject
print
input = raw_input ("Delete Messages [1 - %d, (A)ll Filtered, (Q)uit]: " \
% (msgs))
input = string.lower (input)
if (input == 'all') or (input == 'a'):
print 'Deleting all messages larger than %s bytes...' % (filter_size)
delete = filtered
# delete = range (1, msgs + 1)
elif (input == 'q'):
sys.exit (0)
else:
delete = string.split (input)
for pid in delete:
print 'Deleting message %s...' % pid
p.dele (pid)
p.quit ()
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A user without high-speed internet access who gets spam with large attachments might want to take a look if his/her email client cannot filter at the POP3 server level.
I do plan on working on the sylpheed code to add a way to pop up a confirmation box as large emails are attempted to be downloaded, but this will work for now.
