"""
POP email inbox scanning and deletion utility.
Scan pop email box, fetching just headers, allowing
deletions without downloading the complete message.
"""

import poplib, getpass, sys

mailserver = 'your pop email server name here'   # Edit me: your pop.server.net
mailuser   = 'your pop email user name here'     # Edit me: your userid
mailpasswd = getpass.getpass(f'Password for {mailserver}? ')

print('Connecting...')
server = poplib.POP3(mailserver)
server.user(mailuser)
server.pass_(mailpasswd)

try:
    print(server.getwelcome())
    msgCount, mboxSize = server.stat()
    print('There are', msgCount, 'mail messages, size ', mboxSize)
    msginfo = server.list()
    print(msginfo)
    for i in range(msgCount):
        msgnum  = i+1
        msgsize = msginfo[1][i].split()[1]
        resp, hdrlines, octets = server.top(msgnum, 0)         # Get hdrs only
        print('-'*80)
        print('[%d: octets=%d, size=%s]' % (msgnum, octets, msgsize))
        for line in hdrlines: print(line)

        if input('Print?') in ['y', 'Y']:
            for line in server.retr(msgnum)[1]: print(line)    # Get whole msg
        if input('Delete?') in ['y', 'Y']:
            print('deleting')
            server.dele(msgnum)                                # Delete on srvr
        else:
            print('skipping')
finally:
    server.quit()                                  # Make sure we unlock mbox
input('Bye.')                                      # Keep window up on Windows