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+# Mold Remover
+# A short python script to remove old read mail from a pop3 mailserver.
+# Dovetails with fetchmail with keep option.
+# Run it as a cron job...
+# Version 0.1 by James Stone (stone1@btinternet.com)
+# please submit bug reports and code optimisations as you see fit!
+
+import string
+import poplib
+import time
+
+#user editable section
+mailserver=["mail.server1","mail.server2"] #list of mailservers
+login=["login1","login2"] #list of logins for corresponding mailserver
+password=["pass1","pass2"] #list of passwords (note: chmod 700 for this script)
+days=2 #number of days to keep on server.
+localuidlcache="/var/mail/.fetchmail-UIDL-cache" #fetchmail's UIDL cache
+localuidldate="/var/mail/.UIDLDate" #mold remover's UIDL datefile
+#end of user editable section
+
+readfile=open(localuidlcache, 'r')
+datefile=open(localuidldate, 'a+')
+tempfile=open("/tmp/uidltmp", 'w+')
+popuidllist=[] #list of undeleted uidls on all servers
+totnum=0 #number of undeleted messages on all servers
+connectedto=-1
+
+#connect to each mailserver get all the new message UIDLs and delete any
+#expired messages.
+
+for a in range(len(mailserver)):
+    connect=poplib.POP3(mailserver[a])
+    connect.user(login[a])
+    connect.pass_(password[a])
+    connectedto=a
+    number,size=connect.stat()
+    totnum+=number
+    for mesnum in range(number):
+        messagedeleted=0
+        datefile.seek(0)
+        for uidldate in datefile:
+            uidldatesplit=uidldate.split(' ')
+            if(connectedto==int(uidldatesplit[2])):
+                if (time.time()-float(uidldatesplit[1]))>(86400*days):
+                    try:
+                        recheckuidl=connect.uidl(mesnum+1)
+                        recheckuidlsplit=recheckuidl.split(' ')
+                        if (recheckuidlsplit[2]==uidldatesplit[0]):
+                            print('deleting'+recheckuidlsplit[1])
+                            print(connect.dele(recheckuidlsplit[1]))
+                            messagedeleted=1
+                            totnum-=1
+                    except poplib.error_proto:
+                        pass #skip over messages that have already been deleted.
+        if not(messagedeleted):
+            popuidllist.append(connect.uidl(mesnum+1)+' '+str(a))
+    connect.quit()        
+
+
+#get rid of lines in uidldate file corresponding to the messages that have been
+#expired (and hopefully been deleted)
+
+datefile.seek(0)
+for uidldate in datefile:
+    uidldatesplit=uidldate.split(' ')
+    if not(time.time()-float(uidldatesplit[1]))>(86400*days):
+        tempfile.write(uidldate)
+datefile.close()
+datefile=open(localuidldate,'w+')
+tempfile.seek(0)
+for line in tempfile:
+        datefile.write(line)
+datefile.close()
+datefile=open(localuidldate,'a+')
+
+#add date to uidl for any messages still on the server which have been read 
+#(check in readfile) and store in local datefile.
+
+for mesnum in range(totnum):    
+            popuidl=popuidllist[mesnum]
+            popuidlsplit=popuidl.split(' ')
+            readfile.seek(0)
+            for localuidl in readfile:
+                if(localuidl.find(popuidlsplit[2])<>-1):
+                    foundindatefile=0
+                    datefile.seek(0)
+                    for stored in datefile:
+                        if (stored.find(popuidlsplit[2])<>-1):
+                            foundindatefile=1
+                    if not(foundindatefile):
+                        datefile.write(popuidlsplit[2]+' '+str(time.time())+' '
+                            +popuidlsplit[3]+'\n')