Expunging IMAP mailbox via cronjob : possible?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun Oct 8 15:03:03 PDT 2006


Garrett Cooper wrote:
>    I know this isn't really a FreeBSD question, but I was wondering if 
> there was a means available where I can expunge my email automatically 
> from my IMAP inboxes / folders (I have a wide variety of custom 
> folders). I just find it tedious logging in via SSH to each host with 
> pine and expunging the contents of the folder one-by-one, and there's 
> no way in hell I'm going to use an M$ based mailclient (Outlook 
> Express, Outlook) to do the same.
>    Thanks,
> -Garrett
Nevermind--I think I found out how to do this with Perl: 
<http://search.cpan.org/~cwest/Net-IMAP-Simple-0.95/lib/Net/IMAP/Simple.pm>.
-Garrett


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