Gavin Panella

Here is a small Python script to expire junk mail in an IMAP mailbox.

Apple Mail can automatically delete old junk mail, but I also use KMail and SquirrelMail, and it’s often a long wait between the times I load up Mail, so I need something else. It requires Python 2.4 (perhaps earlier, but I’ve not tried it), and that’s it. Run it with a --help to get started.

Incidentally, the script is also in a Bazaar repository, and you can branch it if you want:

bzr branch \

http://www.premolo.net/~gavin/Scripts

Right now the script doesn’t care about SSL (I run it on the same box as my Courier IMAP server) and it uses CRAM-MD5 authentication which may not be to your taste. It’s not had a lot of testing either, so be careful, and take some backups first :-) It’s in the public domain though, so happy hacking, and I’m more than willing to merge patches.

I just read the announcement of the Apple iPhone and my head is spinning. The device is jammed packed with good ideas and is beautifully styled. Here’s a bunch of clever people radically and bravely thinking about the problems we all have not just with phones and music players, but mainstream portable electronics.

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In the last few days I’ve posted the Premolo packages to the Python Package Index, or PyPI. Source distributions and Eggs are available.

The easiest way to install, say Alfie, is to use easy_install from setuptools:

easy_install premolo-alfie

I’ll be adding in script support for running Alfie from the command line, but in the meantime you can use this slightly unwieldy incantation:

python -c 'from premolo.alfie import template; from sys import argv; template.main(*argv[1:])'

I’m working mostly on Alfie at the moment, and hoping to get a 1.0 release out the door in the first quarter of 2007.

The world’s most popular database is also the VHS of databases. It gets the job done, but the picture is grainy, the sound wows in and out, and it gets jammed once in a while. That’s what I found out on a recent project with MySQL 4.1.

First, some context.

I recently launched a dating website for Luxembourg. “Oh no!” you scream, “Not another bleedin’ dating website!”. No apologies though; Luxembourg needs some loving, and I was the man for the job.

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Hi!

I’m a software developer living in Luxembourg, but I’m actually English. I got together with a lovely Luxembourgish lass, left my job doing techie stuff in Norwich, England, and headed for the rolling hills of Middle Europe.

I started a company, Premolo, to sell my skills and software. I haven’t seen stellar success so far, but I’m working on it, and this blog is a shameless attempt to get more attention for myself and my company. So, now you’ve seen my not-so-hidden agenda, go forth and find something useful, interesting or worth flaming in my postings.

Thanks, Gavin.