Hello,
I am looking for the easiest and most robust way to remove all user
defined keywords from a folder (which could be MIX or MBX). I.e. the
situation is that new keywords need to be used, but 30 old unwanted
keywords have clogged up the folder. Now that Thunderbird / Seamonkey
support unlimited tags (keywords), this is happening more often.
Additionally, our WebMail suite is being updated to support the same
flexibility in keyword assignment. This is great, but the side effect
is the problem users have with needing to clean out keywords.
The quick and dirty thing to do is something like:
* mailutil copy old_folder temp_folder
* Delete old_folder
* Move temp_folder to old_folder
This works fine if you accept the possible loss of email and broken imap
connections during the transfer. It doesn't work with MIX if old_folder
has subfolders. In that case, the "move" part would have to delete and
replace the ".mix" files individually.... and that is even more
dangerous in terms of possible collisions.
We'll probably do something like the above as a temporary measure until
a better solution presents itself.
In MIX, it is easy to update the .mixmeta file to remove all keyword
definitions ... but then you also need to update the .mixindex file so
that all the messages have no keyword bits set ... or else they will
inherit keywords as new ones get added (right?) I would imagine a
simple non-c-client tool to remove the keyword list and clear the
keyword bits from all messages would not be a hard thing to do for mix.
Would Mark have any interest in writing such a tool (so all the locking
is done right)?
Are there any other good ideas?
Thank you,
-Erik Kangas
LuxSci.com
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