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Retrieve emails larger than a minimum amount of MB and older than a minimum amount of days and substitute them with a replica without attachments.

Test mode will loop forever on the first email since the search is done one by one.

Run it on a fast internet connection as it has to download all mails and attachments

Strongly inspired from https://github.com/guido4000/Email-Attachment-Remover and https://github.com/caltabid/imap-delete-attachments

Usage

• Use Python 3
• Adjust config.sample, rename to config.ini
  • Set IMAP mailbox login configuration
    • for GMAIL you can create an app password (the name does't matter, use here just the password)
  • Decide the minimum size of email (MB) and minimum age (days)
  • Decide the folder, I tried INBOX (no quotes) and "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" (with quotes)
  • Decide to move original mail to bin or purely remove it (keep the original mail without attachments in INBOX)
  • Decide to check mail before alter them
  • Disable test mode when you are sure
• Run PyEmail.py