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diff --git a/contrib/mold_remover.py b/contrib/mold_remover.py
index 1ccba7c3..4c5ca222 100644
--- a/contrib/mold_remover.py
+++ b/contrib/mold_remover.py
@@ -1,8 +1,24 @@
# Mold Remover
+#
# A short python script to remove old read mail from a pop3 mailserver.
+# Distributed under the GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
# Dovetails with fetchmail with keep option.
-# Run it as a cron job...
-# Version 0.1 by James Stone (stone1@btinternet.com)
+# Run it as a cron job... Remember to stop fetchmail in the cron job
+# before calling mold_remover, and to restart fetchmail after mold_remover
+# e.g.:
+#
+# /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop >> /var/log/messages
+# /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/mold_remover.py >> /var/log/messages
+# /etc/init.d/fetchmail start >> /var/log/messages
+#
+# Version 0.3 by James Stone (jmstone@dsl.pipex.com)
+# 15th March 2004
+#
+# Changes:
+# 0.1 25th September 2003 Original version
+# 0.2 6th March 2004 Info added regarding use, and explicit mention of GPL made.
+# 0.3 15th March 2004 days changed to list, 1 day changed from 24 to 23 hours.
+#
# please submit bug reports and code optimisations as you see fit!
import string
@@ -10,12 +26,14 @@ 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.
+days=[2,3] #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')
@@ -41,7 +59,7 @@ for a in range(len(mailserver)):
for uidldate in datefile:
uidldatesplit=uidldate.split(' ')
if(connectedto==int(uidldatesplit[2])):
- if (time.time()-float(uidldatesplit[1]))>(86400*days):
+ if (time.time()-float(uidldatesplit[1]))>(86400*days[a]-3600):
try:
recheckuidl=connect.uidl(mesnum+1)
recheckuidlsplit=recheckuidl.split(' ')
@@ -63,7 +81,7 @@ for a in range(len(mailserver)):
datefile.seek(0)
for uidldate in datefile:
uidldatesplit=uidldate.split(' ')
- if not(time.time()-float(uidldatesplit[1]))>(86400*days):
+ if not(time.time()-float(uidldatesplit[1]))>(86400*days[int(uidldatesplit[2])]):
tempfile.write(uidldate)
datefile.close()
datefile=open(localuidldate,'w+')