Este fin de semana me decidí a poner un poco de orden en mis cuentas de correo; Una de las cosas que me obligó a ello es que mi cuenta paga de Yahoo expiró y aún ando debatiendo si debo pagar $20 por una cuenta de correo que no ofrece nada por encima de Gmail. Al momento de revizar mi cuenta de Gmail me encuentro con que estoy usando por encima de 1 GB en correo con más de 40000 correos.

Si, es increíble la cantidad de basura que se acumula en dos años 🙂

Definitivamente no estaba dispuesto a perder mi tiempo borrando tal cantidad de correos a mano, en vez de eso me decicí a automatizar la tarea usando Java y el hecho de que Gmail soporta POP / IMAP (Javamail cuenta con accesso a IMAP comp arte de su API). Una vez leido un poco abrí mi Eclipse y el resultado es el código que viene a continuación:

package com.kodegeek.blog.mail;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Flags.Flag;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
import javax.mail.Message;

import javax.mail.Folder;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Store;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

/**
 * I wrote this program to erase ALL the email on my GMAIL account. I have over 40,000 email so manually doing so was not an option :)
 * Please check the following resources:
 * 

 * 
 http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/index.html
 * 
 http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/JavaMail/contents.html
 * 
 http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/com/sun/mail/imap/package-summary.html
 * 
 http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/downloads/index.html
 * 
 * Also define a properties file with the following (adjust it to your configuration):
 * # As defined by the Javadoc
 * 

 * 
 mail.user=name.lastname@gmail.com
 * 
 mail.password=zzz
 * 
 mail.store.host=pop.imap.gmail.com
 * 
 mail.store.protocol=imap
 * 
 mail.imap.port=993
 * 
 mail.imap.socketFactory.port=993
 * 
 mail.imap.socketFactory.class=javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory
 * 
 * License: GPL
 * http://kodegeek.com
 * @author Jose Vicente Nunez Zuleta
 * @version 12/28/2008
 */
public final class ImapBulkEraser {

	/**
	 * Command line processing
	 * @param args [0] Location of the properties configuration file, If not provided then will use system defaults (defined with -D)
	 * @throws Exception
	 * @since 0.1
	 */
	public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception {

		Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(ImapBulkEraser.class.getName());

		Properties props = System.getProperties();
		if (args.length == 1) {
			props.load(new FileInputStream(args[0]));
		}
		Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);
		session.setDebug(Boolean.parseBoolean(props.getProperty("debug")));
		Store store = session.getStore(props.getProperty("mail.store.protocol"));
		logger.info(String.format("Connecting to: %s@%s:%s", props.getProperty("mail.user"), props.getProperty("mail.store.host"), props.getProperty("mail.imap.port")));
		store.connect(props.getProperty("mail.store.host"), props.getProperty("mail.user"), props.getProperty("mail.password"));
		Folder folder = store.getDefaultFolder();
		logger.info("Got default folder. Erasing emails from ALL the folders");
		Folder [] folders = folder.list();
		long messgCnt = 0;
		for(Folder currFolder: folders) {

			try {

				if ((currFolder.getType() & Folder.HOLDS_MESSAGES) == 0) {
					continue; // Skip this folder type
				}
				logger.info(String.format("Opening folder: %s, num messages; %d", currFolder.getFullName(), currFolder.getMessageCount()));
				currFolder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
				Message [] messages = currFolder.getMessages();

				// Mark all the messages for delete
				for (Message message: messages) {
					try {
						message.setFlag(Flag.DELETED, true);
						MimeMessage currMessage = (MimeMessage) message;
						logger.info(String.format("Set delete flag for mail subject: '%s', folder: '%s'", currMessage.getSubject(), currMessage.getFolder().getFullName()));
						messages = currFolder.expunge(); // Confirm delete for all the messages on the current folder
						messgCnt += messages.length;
					}  catch (MessagingException messgExp) {
						logger.log(Level.WARNING, "There was a problem erasing the message, ignoring", messgExp);
					}
				}

				logger.info(String.format("Messages erased on folder %s: %d", currFolder.getFullName(), messages.length));
				currFolder.close(true);

			} catch (MessagingException messgExp) {
				logger.log(Level.WARNING, "There was a problem, ignoring", messgExp);
			}

		}
		logger.info(String.format("Total number of erased messsages: %d", messgCnt));
		store.close();
	}

}

Correr el código es trivial, asegurese de tener el JAR de Javamail en el $CLASSPATH y haga algo como esto:


java com.kodegeek.blog.mail.ImapBulkEraser -Dmail.user=name.lastname@gmail.com -Dmail.password=XXXX -Dmail.store.host=imap.gmail.com -Dmail.store.protocol=imap -Dmail.store.folder=INBOX -Dmail.imap.port=993 -Dmail.imap.socketFactory.port=993 -Dmail.imap.socketFactory.class=javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory


El programa no es perfecto, ya que de vez en cuando me conseguí con la siguiente error:


NFO: Set delete flag for mail subject: 'Deploying webapps in embedded environment', folder: 'tomcat-user'
Dec 28, 2008 5:40:18 PM com.kodegeek.blog.mail.ImapBulkEraser main
WARNING: There was a problem erasing the message, ignoring
javax.mail.MessagingException: Failed to load IMAP envelope
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage.loadEnvelope(IMAPMessage.java:1069)
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage.getSubject(IMAPMessage.java:256)
at com.kodegeek.blog.mail.ImapBulkEraser.main(ImapBulkEraser.java:83)
Dec 28, 2008 5:40:18 PM com.kodegeek.blog.mail.ImapBulkEraser main


Sin embargo esos no son todos los correos 🙂

Como siempre el código fuente de este programa es GPL y se puede bajar desde CVS.