How to select all messages in an imap folder

[jeward]

I periodically have to go through some imap folders, select all m,essages and delete. Is there any straightforward way to do this in the webmail client?

Thanks in advance.

James

[mmorse]

You can change your preference of how many messages you want to view at once, 10/25/50/100. (options/preferences > mail > number of items to display per page)
CTL-A would select all on that page.
(See the options shortcuts tab for some other good quick keys.)

And before you ask
It would be a lot of traffic if someone had a huge folder and loaded it into their browser, but you can still delete the folder itself (you did say you wanted to 'select all and delete').

[rey]

Except you can't delete special folders like "Inbox, Sent, Drafts".

[mmorse]

Didn't know if he was admin/user (he made this thread in the user's section).

If your an admin:
su zimbra
zmmailbox -z -m user@domain.com emptyFolder /folderName

<FolderActionRequest><action op="empty" recursive="false" id="folderID"/></FolderActionRequest>

[kirme3]

Just to add to this...I believe 5.0 will have an Empty Folder option in it too...am I wrong?

[mmorse]

yep! -but I have to assume 4.5.x
Bug 14213 - Mail Client should have a "delete items in a folder" (empty folder) action

There was some trouble when emptying remote/shared folders (where your a manager) because of the wrong ID usage-let me check on that bug and see.

[rey]

Originally Posted by mmorse

zmmailbox -z -m user@domain.com emptyFolder /folderName

Nice to know there's some powerful command line tools underneath.
I don't think that will help James if he's not the admin.
That reminds me I've got the read the manuals sometime.

[mmorse]

The v5 shared folder empty issue has been fixed-however you will have to manually refresh sometimes until bug Bug 6082 - enable notification for delegate stores/shared folders is fixed.