3 email: rover@emptydog.com
5 If you downloaded this Python app from the author's
6 site or from a regular download site such as Simtel,
7 the author still supports it and is happy to answer
9 See PopDel.py and COPYING for license information.
10 See http://emptydog.com for more of the author's work.
15 PopDel.manual (This file.)
16 COPYING (The GNU license file.)
20 python PopDel.py your.pop.server username password
24 PopDel stands for Pop Delete; this program deletes selected email from a
25 pop mail server. I use fetchmail with a size limit of around 142k.
26 Anything bigger than that triggers a fetchmail oversize message. This
27 program is used to look at the subject lines in the mail headers on the
28 server and lets you delete all those lovely, large MSOffice virus
31 Run this app as above in a console. You get a numbered list of
32 messages. Enter a number to delete or q to quit. When you quit you can
33 confirm changes and send the quit confirmation to the pop server or
36 What could be simpler. After deletion, I run fetchmail without the size
37 limit and pull down that Sandra Bullock trailer that turns out to be a
38 virus anyway. But who cares, Linux is tougher than viruses.
43 (PopDel.manual ends here -- this line added by Matthias Andree, 04/2006)