mbox-purge performs batch deletion of email messages from mbox format files with appropriate locking, based on rules you specify. You can select messages received before or after some point in time, or whose headers or bodies match some Perl regular expression, or which are selected based on an arbitrary Perl expression.
Copyright (c) Roderick Schertler. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
git clone https://github.com/alonswartz/mbox-purge.git
for d in $(ls deps); do
cd deps/$d
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install
cd -
done
# if you want date parsing
cpan -i Date::Parse
$ ./mbox-purge.pl --help
usage: mbox-purge.pl [switch]... mbox_file...
switches:
-c, --copy-to file copy messages which are being deleted to file
--debug turn debugging on
--help show the help and die
--newline s use s as the line terminator rather than guessing
--newline-native use the native line terminator rather than guessing
-n, --no don't actually modify any files
--quiet suppress informational messages
--verbose output additional informational messages
--version show the version and exit
criteria:
--before date-time delivered before date-time
--before-or-at date-time delivered before or exactly at date-time
--after date-time delivered after date-time
--after-or-at date-time delivered after or exactly at date-time
--pattern pat head+body match Perl regex /pat/m
--head-pattern pat head matches Perl regex /pat/m
--body-pattern pat body matches Perl regex /pat/m
--eval code $code->(\$head, \$body, \$msg) returns true
--head-eval code $code->(\$head) returns true
Any messages in the given files which match all the criteria are deleted.
Use `perldoc mbox-purge.pl' to see the full documentation.
- official documentation
- mbox-purge.rst
perldoc mbox-purge.pl