On 01-01-2024 13:53, David Van Edwards wrote:
!. I have just tried deleting Sent messages and when I put the search string
1:200 in only one message was deleted. And when I put in 1:500 again only one
message was deleted. In both cases a green message box came up saying the
operation was successful.
2. I successfully deleted 1000 messages from my Inbox using the search string
1:1000 but it was not clear to me that this would delete the 1000 most RECENT
emails, not as I imagined the FIRST 1000 emails counting from the beginning. Is
that the case? It certainly seems to have been the result and it’s rather
upsetting.
Should your documentation make it clear whether 1:1000 is counting forwards or
backwards?
Hi David,
Dovecot is a server application, it doesn't display a 'green message
box' or something like that. This is probably your mail client
acknowledging that it did what you asked from it. That might not
necessarily be the same as you expected it to do: I've never seen a mail
client that allows you to send an IMAP DELETE command with a 1:200 range
from the GUI.
Maybe you should describe in detail:
- What mail client you are using to perform tests, and how you executed
them.
- On which documentation you based your search strings.
- What version of Dovecot you are using, and maybe the output of
'doveconf-n'
- What Dovecot logged when you performed your tests.
When logging is unclear or sparse, maybe enable mail_debug before you
start the test to get more detail. See
https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/debugging/mail_debugging/
Probably I don't know the answer to your questions, but giving explicit
information might help others to help you :)
Kind regards,
Tom
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