Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 1/7/2021 9:32 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > > > > Has anyone done any scripting to manipulate email on a remote IMAP > > server? I'd like to select about 50,000 emails from an Inbox of > > ~80,000 (say, all emails from 2020) and move them to a different > > folder on the same IMAP server. I'm wondering if fetchmail or similar > > tools can do this (but am open to other suggestions). > > > > FYI, I've tried this operation in several GUI IMAP clients but they > > all either (1) fail for large numbers of messages, or (2) have such a > > cumbersome selection process (for "all emails from 2020") that it > > would take an hour to highlight all the emails. > > > > Thanks for any tips, or even just a pointer to the best tool(s) for > > the job. > > I'd be surprised if mutt didn't do the trick for you. If you're a vi > person, you'll like mutt. > > http://mutt.org/ > > Specific examples of tagging messages: > http://therandymon.com/woodnotes/mutt/node19.html >
mutt is my everyday client, but I also strongly recommend it for situations where you need to deal with more than 10,000 messages. I have used it on folders with more than 1MM messages. tag all messages from 2020: t~d20200101-20201231 mnemonic: tag with date move tagged messages to new folder and mark as deleted in current folder: ;s mnemonic: save clear deleted messages from current folder: $ mnemonic: sync -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
