Thanks! That worked like a champ.
Should have known that python was the answer.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On Friday 11 January 2002 11:03 am, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > Some of my email get delivered to my isp's pop3 server and I
> > retrieve it with fetchmail. A couple of days ago I got a piece of
> > spam that produces a protocol error. Fetchmail retrieves the headers
> > for this one email, gets the error, and quits -- leaving the bad
> > email on the server to repeat the process the next time it checks
> > for mail.
> >
> > Is there a program or manual way I can just delete that one message
> > and then let fetchmail do its thing?
>
> If you have python on your machine, then you can run this script to
> delete as many (or few) messages directly off the pop server.
>
> import getpass, poplib, string
> M = poplib.POP3('mail.yourisp.com')
> M.user('yourusername')
> M.pass_(getpass.getpass())
> numMessages = len(M.list()[1])
> print numMessages
> x = M.list(0)
> for i in range(1, numMessages):
> print '=============================================='
> print '=============================================='
> x = M.top(i, 0)
> print i
> for y in x[1]:
> z = string.split(y, ' ')
> if z[0] in ('Date:', 'From:', 'To:', 'Subject:'):
> print z
> a = raw_input('Delete this message?')
> if a in ('Y', 'y'):
> M.dele(i)
> if a in ('Q', 'q'):
> break
> M.quit()
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