"""
This script simply mass delete mails from a mailbox
through a POP3 access.

May be useful when you want to clear an Inbox of spams & all.

** CAUTION ** After you have selected the number of messages to delete and pressed
Enter, it really does begin to delete the emails in a permanent way. (Without passing by a trash folder)

Note: the removal is actual when the script close the POP3 connection
with the QUIT command (if you provider correctly implements the POP3 protocol).

Written by Yoan Tournade <yoan@ytotech.com>
"""
import poplib

POP_SERVER_URL = 'pop.empire.org'
POP_SERVER_PORT = 995
POP_USER = 'dark.vader@empire.org'
POP_PASSWORD = 'I hate you!'

popClient = poplib.POP3_SSL(POP_SERVER_URL, port=995)
popClient.set_debuglevel(1)
print(popClient.user(POP_USER))
print(popClient.pass_(POP_PASSWORD))
try:
    mailCount = popClient.stat()[0]
    print('There are {} mails in the inbox'.format(mailCount))
    numberToDelete = int(input('How many do you want to delete? '))
    print(numberToDelete)
    # print(popClient.list()[1])
    for i in range(1, numberToDelete):
        popClient.dele(i)
    print('{} DELE commands passed'.format(numberToDelete))
finally:
    print('QUIT-ing')
    popClient.quit()

print("Done")