[SOLVED] Limit search mails zmmailbox

[okahei]

Hi all.

We have to delete all mail before 11/8/2009 from a mailbox.

I see i can't delete more than 1000 mails at one time.

emails=`zmmailbox -z -m user@mail.com s -l 100000 -t message "in:inbox before: 11/8/2009"|awk '{ if (NR!=1) {print}}'| grep mess | awk '{ print $2 "," }' | tr -d '\n'`

and then :

zmmailbox -z -m user@mail.com dm `echo $emails`

but it only deletes the first 1000 mails.

Is there a limit for searching emails ?

BR

EDIT: version 5.011 NE ubuntu 32

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by okahei

Is there a limit for searching emails ?

There's no limit on searching for email.

Don't forget the forum search function: [SOLVED] delete mails via cli based on date

[Rich Graves]

There's no limit on searching for email.

Is too. zmmailbox has a hard-coded limit of 1000, even when specifying a higher limit like -l 10000.

To work around, just wrap it in a for or while loop.

Alternative strategy: search for messages after the cutoff, mm to a temp folder, ef /inbox, and mm back to inbox.