A simple script that shows the headers from messages in a popbox and allows the user to delete messages on the server before downloading them. Only works with pop-servers that support the TOP-command.
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import sys
import getpass
import poplib
def popPeek(server, user, port=110):
try:
P = poplib.POP3(server, port)
P.user(user)
P.pass_(getpass.getpass())
except:
print "Failed to connect to server."
sys.exit(1)
deleted = 0
try:
l = P.list()
msgcount = len(l[1])
for i in range(msgcount):
msg = i+1
top = P.top(msg, 0)
for line in top[1]:
print line
input = raw_input("D to delete, any other key to leave message on server: ")
if input=="D":
P.dele(msg)
deleted += 1
P.quit()
print "%d messages deleted. %d messages left on server" % (deleted, msgcount-deleted)
except:
P.rset()
P.quit()
deleted = 0
print "\n%d messages deleted. %d messages left on server" % (deleted, msgcount-deleted)
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv)<3:
print """
Usage: popPeek.py server username [port]
"""
else:
popPeek(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3])
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I wrote this because one of the accounts I (have to) use is flooded with the myDoom-virus and spambayes doesn't (yet) seem able to catch enough of them for me to be able to ignore it.
Tags: network
Nice script. The only suggestion I would make would be to change
to be case insensitive (input.upper() or raw_input("...").upper()), the first time I ran the script I used all lowercase d's and was suprised to see 0 messages were deleted.
Also, the "D to delete, any other key to leave message on server:" doesn't wait for any key to be pressed, it only works after you press enter, you'd have to use a getch() type function to do that (see recipe #134892 or search for "getch")