How to suppress some progress messages?
These progress messages are great, but how does one suppress some of them? Reading imaps://j Looking up mail.d Connecting to mai SSL/TLS connectio Authenticating (PLAIN)... Selecting INBOX.S Fetching message headers... Sorting mailbox... Mailbox is unc Closing connection to m Thanks.
Re: Deleting large number of emails from busy mailbox
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. -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Deleting large number of emails from busy mailbox
On 03/13 08:47, Vegard Svanberg wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > 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? Hacky, but: could you take down your SMTP server for several minutes, while you do the deletions? ~ Kira > > Thanks! > > -- > Vegard Svanberg [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)] >
Deleting large number of emails from busy mailbox
Hi, 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. 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? Thanks! -- Vegard Svanberg [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]
