Here’s a handy little IMAP utility people may find useful. IMAPrunner was an excuse for me to learn a little more about Python programming and to also throw together something useful at the same time.  It’s a Python script that lets you associate scripts/commands with mail messages in individual mail folders.

I now have a cron job set up that checks for any e-mails I add to a “spam” folder.  If I receive any spam I just move it to that folder.  IMAPrunner will then pass the spam e-mail onto SpamAssassin, razor, pyzor, etc. and then delete the e-mail automatically. There’s really no limit to what you can trigger in response to an e-mail with it.  And I already have a few thoughts for improvements to it…