* Kevin J. McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> [2023-03-13 21:07]: > Do you mean the 2000 emails you want to delete, or the half-million emails > in the mailbox?
The 2000 I want to delete, yes. :-) > If it's the first, it sounds as if Mutt thinks the value in $trash is not > the same server as the mailbox you are connected do. Otherwise it would do > a UID COPY on the server side, which would be faster. Holy moly, I just re-discovered I had a trash! Which, needless to say, is huge... I'd forgotten all about it. You're right, they're not the same. Mailbox is on IMAP, trash is a local file. Well, that explains it, then. After reading the fine manual, I don't see an immediate way to disable trash. Assuming I'll have to move it to IMAP then. Which is fine, just wondering if trash could be disabled as I don't really need it. > > 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? > > That's unfortunately an old issue with Mutt's sync design. It checks the > mailbox for any reopen/new/flag updates before trying to sync and aborts if > that's the case. Well at least that explains why it's behaving that way. Thank you! -- Vegard Svanberg <veg...@svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]
