Archive your Gmail inbox from Python
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Sean Fulmer
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Mar 28, 2009 07:15 PM
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A quickie Python script to clean out your Gmail inbox... I run this whenever my Gmail notifier has notified me of a bunch of mail that I don't really need to read.
import imaplib
gmail_user = 'your_username'
gmail_pass = 'your_password'
M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
M.login(gmail_user, gmail_pass)
M.select()
typ, data = M.search(None, 'ALL')
for num in data[0].split():
M.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\Seen')
M.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted')
M.expunge()
A couple of points:
- When I mention 'archive' in the title, I mean the Gmail 'Archive' feature - ie, remove the message from the inbox but keep it in 'All Mail'.
- You need to have IMAP enabled on your Gmail account.
- Don't let that '\\Deleted' stuff scare you - in Gmail's IMAP implementation, that removes the message from the inbox, but it doesn't actually delete it.
(... he said, ignoring the fact that he hadn't posted anything here in the past seven months.)
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