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rmmailThe Fast Mail RemoverWelcome to the rmmail project page. rmmail is a tool to help you get rid of unwanted mails quickly while they still sit in your incoming folder.
Latest release: rmmail 0.0.1 (22 Jan 2002) Download: rmmail-0.0.1.tar.gz Graphical (Gtk) version (alpha): grmmail-0.0.2.tar.gz Are you sick of a situation like this? [esser@dual esser]$ frm 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Last time to get flowers at a 30% discount masterdisc5995@postino.ch Special Prices Offered for 15 Days!!! DIXJ MonsterHut Re: How to get them to open your email... tawallace@earthlink.net Renowned Doctor reveals Anti-Aging Discove ... Then you open your favorite mail program, and off you go with the keystrokes or mouse clicks necessary to select and delete most of the new mails. Some have funny dates of last year and go to a place deep down in your standard mail folder... rmmail removes themTo help speed up this process, rmmail lets you go through the deleting process quickly before your standard mailer even touches the new mails: Call rmmail without any arguments to edit your system inbox (typically /var/spool/mail/username). You get a display of all the new mails, showing only sender, recipient, and subject - which is what you really need to decide on deletion. The mails are enumerated, and if you find that all 34 new mails except no. 11 are useless, then getting rid of the rest is as easy as typing d 1-10 12-34 on the rmmail command line. A little sample session waits further down. Features
Example session[esser@dual rmmail]$ rmmail test.mail 1 [x] GameSpy Daily <porta -> GameSpy Daily < : What new toy could be the next 2 [x] "ilewis2921@kali.com -> "ilewis2921@kal : Get a great mortgage easily an 3 [x] "sherry@dbtrigger.co -> "sherry@dbtrigg : Send Real Time eMail Alerts fr 4 [x] min83203d@justinfo.c -> min83203d@justi : Quick Cash and Great Rates! 5 [x] GameSpy Daily <porta -> GameSpy Daily < : Mod Week Begins at GameSpy ... 6 [x] GMX Best Price <best -> GMX Best Price : 215,57 Euro sparen - mit dem I 7 [x] GMX Best Price <best -> GMX Best Price : 215,57 Euro sparen - mit dem I 8 [x] GMX Best Price <best -> GMX Best Price : 215,57 Euro sparen - mit dem I 9 [x] Johnny Mnemonic <joh -> Johnny Mnemonic : silc config 0.8 10 [x] Pekka Riikonen <prii -> Pekka Riikonen : Forwarded mail.... 11 [x] a4414@lycos.ne.jp -> a4414@lycos.ne. : When you're overweight life st 12 [x] mandi18@aol.com () -> mandi18@aol.com : hey, how are you doing? rmmail[test.mail/12]: d 1-9 11 12 rmmail[test.mail/12]: w 11 Mails deleted; saved in /home/esser/.rmmail/deleted.mails 1 Mails saved in test.mail test.mail reopened rmmail[test.mail/1]: _ Installing & Requirementsrmmail is a Python program. It was written with Python 2.2 and uses the modules sys, string, re, readline, os, os.path. All of these seem to be part of a standard Python distribution. To install rmmail, download the archive rmmail-0.0.1.tar.gz, and untar it. Check the first line of rmmail: If your Python binary sits in a directory other than /usr/bin/python, you'll have to change the entry in that line. Copy rmmail to a directory in your path, and the man page rmmail.1 to something like /usr/man/man1/ or /usr/local/man/man1. Then you're done. Please remember this is untested development software. Even though it tries to make sure data are protected, use of this program may result in loss of your mails or other data. To start the program, just type rmmail (if you have mail in your system inbox) or rmmail filename to open a specified mail folder. If things don't work the way, you'd expect, you may try changing the section # BEGIN flags deb_flag=0 verbose_flag=0 # END flags Zeros changed to "1" will increase the amount of output, while the standard behavior of rmmail is do to its tasks rather quietly. SuggestionYou might want to replace frm with rmmail: I used to look at my system inbox using the frm command, would then open mutt to delete all Spam mails (which was the quickest way for me before there was rmmail), to finally get into Netscape Mail and retrieve the surviving personal mails. Now I'm using rmmail to combine the previous first two steps. To do this, search for the frm command (mine sits in /usr/local/bin/ since there was no frm in my distribution), go into its directory, and then do mv frm frm.old ln -s `which rmmail` frm grmmail - Gtk versionFor those who dislike text-mode tools, there is a graphical (Gtk based) version of rmmail, consistently named grmmail. Its interface was made with Glade, so Glade modules for Python need to be installed. Here's a screenshot (click for full resolution):
It has the same features as the text mode client and some more; you can select multiple lines (including multiple selections) in the main window, delete and undelete selected mails by pressing "d" or "u", reverse the selection with [Ctl-r], etc. There's a command line that lets you enter commands just as in the text mode client. Notice that the graphical version is not fully functional yet. It does the main functions as the text mode version does, but some things fail, menus are not complete etc. This is just to get an idea what a graphical version will finally be like. If you only use the basic functions, it will be fine. man page
RMMAIL(1) Mail tools RMMAIL(1)
rmmail
rmmail - delete mail interactively
SYNTAX
rmmail <filename>
rmmail -h
DESCRIPTION
rmmail lets you interactively select single mails from an mbox-style mail folder
for deletion. After opening the mail folder, rmmail shows an enumerated list of
headers (From, To, Subject). Commands for deletion and undeletion accept one or
more arguments which can also be ranges (e.g. 3-6).
No changes to the mail folder are made unless the write command is used.
For safety reasons all deleted mails are stored in ~/.rmmail/deleted.mails where
they can be retrieved or finally purged by deleting this backup file.
Notice that none of rmmail's functions will ask any "yes or no?" questions -
especially the write command will be executed immediately. After writing the
file, it is reread.
rmmail knows the following interactive commands:
d num|n1-n2
Delete mail number num or mails from numbers n1-n2 to n1-n2 (inclusive).
It is okay to delete a mail already deleted.
i Show information summary.
l Show list of mails. Displayed headers are the From, To, and Subject
fields.
o <filename>
Open a different mail folder. No changes are made to the last folder.
q Quit the program.
u num|n1-n2
Undelete mail number num or mails from numbers n1-n2 to n1-n2 (inclusive).
It is okay to undelete a not yet deleted mail.
w Writes mail folder, saving the changes. rmmail will report how many mails
were rewritten into the original folder and how many have been deleted.
Deleted mails are preserved in the file ~/.rmmail/deleted.mails which
should be purged regularly. The folder is reread after writing.
OPTIONS
-h Show help information
FILES
~/.rmmail/deleted.mails
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
HOME Specifies the user's home directory. This variable should be set since
$HOME/.rmmail is created.
MAIL Location of user's incoming mail folder
AUTHOR
Hans-Georg Eßer <h.g.esser [at] gmx.de>
SEE ALSO
mail(1)
CreditsThis is a Python program. I looked up many things in the decent "Python - Essential Reference" book by David M. Beazley. There's a man page that I created with manedit, http://wolfpack.twu.net/ManEdit/. Future plansThe following is a list of features that I'd like to see implemented soon. So if you feel you would like this feature, just tell me, or perhaps even supply the patch :)
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