On 05/04/2013, at 22:08, mayak-cq <mayak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> it works -- mail consulted from sogo web mail client and i am running 2.4.17 on x64, but i am wondering what is the best way to split this up, or, move it to a new directory and start a new archive ...
I wrote a script which moves messages into a new subfolder each month for this sort of account.#!/usr/local/bin/python
import imaplib, datetime, re
user = 'user'
password = 'password'
host = 'mail.foo.com'
def movemail(imap, base, fake = False):
stat, msg = imap.select(base)
assert(stat == 'OK')
now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
lstMnthSt = datetime.date(now.year, now.month, 1)
if (now.month != 1):
lstMnthEn = datetime.date(now.year, now.month - 1, 1)
else:
lstMnthEn = datetime.date(now.year - 1, 12, 1)
qry = ["SENTSINCE", "%02d-%s-%04d" % (lstMnthEn.day, lstMnthEn.strftime("%b"), lstMnthEn.year)]
qry.extend(["SENTBEFORE", "%02d-%s-%04d" % (lstMnthSt.day, lstMnthSt.strftime("%b"), lstMnthSt.year)])
stat, msg = imap.search(None, *qry)
assert(stat == 'OK')
msgcount = len(msg[0].split())
msglist = msg[0]
foldername = "%s.%04d-%02d-%02d" % (base, lstMnthEn.year, lstMnthEn.month, lstMnthEn.day)
print "Copying to " + foldername
stat, msg = imap.create(foldername)
assert(stat == 'OK' or msg[0] == 'Mailbox already exists')
stat, msg = imap.subscribe(foldername)
assert(stat == 'OK')
if (not fake):
# Annoyingly imaplib does not take into account any line
# length limits in the server so we have to manually split
# everything up..
pymsglist = msglist.split()
pidx = 0
while (pidx < len(pymsglist)):
imaplist = reduce(lambda a, b: a + ',' + b, pymsglist[pidx:pidx + 100])
stat, msg = imap.copy(imaplist, foldername)
assert(stat == 'OK')
stat, msg = imap.store(imaplist, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted')
assert(stat == 'OK')
pidx = pidx + 100
print "Copied " + imaplist
stat, msg = imap.select(base)
assert(stat == 'OK')
stat, msg = imap.expunge()
assert(stat == 'OK')
else:
print "Would move & delete %d messages" % (msgcount)
splitlist = msglist.split()
abbrevlist = splitlist[:10]
abbrevlist.extend(splitlist[-10:])
for m in abbrevlist:
stat, msg = imap.fetch(m, '(ENVELOPE)')
print "%s -> %s" % (m, re.findall('[0-9]+ [a-zA-Z]+ [0-9]+ ..:..:.. \+....', msg[0]))
def init():
imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(host)
stat, msg = imap.login(user, password)
assert(stat == 'OK')
return(imap)
imap = init()
movemail(imap, 'INBOX.folder1', fake = False)
movemail(imap, 'INBOX.folder2', fake = False)
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