On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 08:47:14AM +0100, Vegard Svanberg wrote:
Latest mutt on local IMAP (Dovecot).My mailbox is rather busy (and contains around half a million emails). Say I want to delete 2000 emails. I tag them, ;d and press X to expunge. Mutt starts fetching every email (not sure why that is - does it have to?), then would normally remove them after that.
Do you mean the 2000 emails you want to delete, or the half-million emails in the mailbox?
If it's the first, it sounds as if Mutt thinks the value in $trash is not the same server as the mailbox you are connected do. Otherwise it would do a UID COPY on the server side, which would be faster.
You can check this by running mutt with '-d 3' and search in the log for imap_fast_trash.
If that wasn't intentional, try to see if $trash and the current mailbox URL differ somehow and try to make them the exact same.
Problem is: if a new email arrives during this process (which could take a few minutes), Mutt never gets around to actually removing the messages. It just seems to abort in the middle of the operation and I have to do expunge again until I eventually succeed after a few attempts. Anything I could do my end to solve this?
That's unfortunately an old issue with Mutt's sync design. It checks the mailbox for any reopen/new/flag updates before trying to sync and aborts if that's the case.
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