Service call to delete all emails in inbox

[masterkenobi (Ben)]

I’m trying to create an automation to clear/delete all emails in an inbox. From my understanding, python script is the best way to achieve this however this is beyond me.

I found this sample for deleting all emails in inbox…

imap deleting messages

…but not sure how to put everything together. Appreciate if someone can help me on this. Thank you in advance.

[masterkenobi (Ben)]

Anyway, I found a workaround using a python script and shell command…

Imap_email_content sensor go through all emails in inbox after restart

I found a workaround by using a python script with shell command platform. This is the script I used (taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/8255579) #!/usr/bin/python3 import imaplib box = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.mail.microsoftonline.com', 993) box.login("[email protected]","paswword") box.select('Inbox') typ, data = box.search(None, 'ALL') for num in data[0].split(): box.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted') box.expunge() box.close() box.logout() save it as a file, e.g. emptyinbox.py in /home/…