From: Damjan Rems <d_rems@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T15:47:18+09:00
Subject: Re: E-mail library for Ruby?

Just Another Victim of the Am Morality wrote:
> Okay, I'll detail my problem and, hopefully, people can suggest a
> solution to me.
>     I have an account on a Linux machine that I use as my e-mail 
> address.  I
> use Pine as my mail client.  I have let my inbox accumulate e-mail for 
> years
> and there is now too much e-mail queued up for my tastes.  Now, I don't 
> want
> to delete my e-mail.  Instead, I want archive it to various e-mail 
> folders
> like how I would have if I used Pine.  I could do this by hand, using 
> Pine,
> except that there is simply too much e-mail for me to do this in any
> reasonable time.
>     So, I think my solution is to automate this sorting using something 
> like
> Ruby and an appropriate library.  Does anyone know what Ruby library I'm
> looking for?
>     Thank you...

If You have imap access you can do this. This is excerpt from my program
which is cleaning postmaster box.

  aDelete=Array.new
  aMove=Array.new
  imap = Net::IMAP.new('mail.domain.com')
  imap.login('user', 'pwd')
  imap.select('Inbox')
  n = imap.search(["SINCE", "1-Jan-1969"])
  listInbox = imap.fetch(n, ["ENVELOPE","UID"] )
  listInbox.each do | a |
    if (a.attr["ENVELOPE"].subject[0..14] == "Discarded Mail:" or
       a.attr["ENVELOPE"].subject[0..16] == "Quarantined Mail:") then
      aMove.push(a.attr["UID"])    # either move
      aDelete.push(a.attr["UID"])  # or delete
    end
  end
# Move to other folder
  if aMove.length > 0
    imap.uid_copy(aMove,"FolderToMove")
    imap.uid_store(aMove, "+FLAGS", [:Deleted])
  end
# Delete msgs
  imap.uid_store(aDelete, "+FLAGS", [:Deleted]) if aDelete.length > 0
# Expunge msgs marked for deletion
  imap.expunge
  imap.close

by

TheR

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.