messages with negative id

[sirio81]

Hi all, could you please tell me why some of my messages have negative id?

zmmailbox -z -m valerio search -l 1000 'before:"01/01/2010"'

257.  -418  conv   Valerio               subject1                          04/08/09 09:37
258.   416  conv   Valerio (2)           subject2                             04/07/09 11:46

[stasouv]

Actually that is a question I used to have until yesterday...

It comes out that all messages listed with zmmailbox command have a negative id.
Those items listed without a negative id are actually conversations, not messages.

So, for instance, if you have for user some listing like:
11023
-11022
-11021
11020

and you want to delete those, you should do

zmmailbox -z -m user dm 11022,11021 (this is deleteMessage)

and

zmmailbox -z -m user dc 11023,11020 (this is deleteConversation)

[sirio81]

Great! Thank you!