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 <veg...@svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)] >