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I am a lazy person. I don’t like to delete my mailing list mail. I don’t need any of them, there’s a copy of all the mailing list mails somewhere on the internet. But since I’m lazy I never clean out my mailing list mail boxes.

So I used Net::IMAP and wrote IMAPCleanse to automatically clean out my mailing list mailboxes of messages older than a threshold that are read and not flagged. (So if I flag a message it’ll stay around forever.)

You can install IMAPCleanse as a gem:

$ sudo gem install IMAPCleanse

And read all about how to use it in the RDoc.

The only problem I had was that Net::IMAP didn’t support PLAIN authentication over SSL, so I added that. (I need to whip up some patches for Net::IMAP and fold it back in.)