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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: fixit on March 26, 2007, 06:02:21 AM

Title: Horde, I want to delete mass emails
Post by: fixit on March 26, 2007, 06:02:21 AM

I have over 20,000 emails in a inbox that I would like to delete all at once, not 20 at a time.

Is there a simple way to do this & what procedures are involved

Thanks Russell

Title: Re: Horde, I want to delete mass emails
Post by: cactus on March 26, 2007, 08:39:34 AM

Quote from: "fixit"

I have over 20,000 emails in a inbox that I would like to delete all at once, not 20 at a time.

Is there a simple way to do this & what procedures are involved

Thanks Russell

If you have shell access you can try and find your inbox (/home/e-smith/files/users/username/Mailbox/ and use the 'rm' command to remove them all at once:

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rm -rf *. New mail is in the new folder all others probably in the  cur folder.

Good luck!

Edit: corrected typo in suggested command

Title: Re: Horde, I want to delete mass emails
Post by: byte on March 26, 2007, 10:33:37 AM

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tm -rf *.

That should read...

rm -rf *

Title: Horde, I want to delete mass emails
Post by: eastend99 on March 26, 2007, 10:36:01 AM

Click the folders Icon
select the inbox folder
in the "Choose action" drop down box select "Empty Folder(s)"

That should do the trick.

Title: Horde, I want to delete mass emails
Post by: fixit on March 26, 2007, 11:21:22 AM

Thanks everyone, I removed everything that was in /home/e-smith/Maildir/cur . Thats what I was after

Thanks