Unable to delete messages in GAM7

[Scott Stahl]

Howdy!

I'm having issues trying to delete/trash messages on several versions of GAM7, including the most current.  The sample command I'm using for troubleshooting is:

gam user acc...@domain.com trash messages query before:2024-01-01

Even though there are thousands of messages to purge, the return is always as follows:

Got 1 Message for  acc...@domain.com  ...
User:  acc...@domain.com, Message: 1, Not Trashed: Use the "doit" argument to perform action

I can run the command successfully from a shared script server running GAM 6.1

My first assumption is a rights issue.  If I run "gam user <me> check serviceaccount", I do get some differences, but the key rights are 'passing':

Non-working install

   https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify                              PASS (33/42)
   https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.basic                      PASS (34/42)
   https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.sharing                    PASS (35/42)

Working install

  https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.basic                       PASS
  https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.sharing                     PASS

The command to print messages with the same query works fine on both platforms/versions.  Only the trash/delete errors out.

Please do not reply with 'use the script server'.  I'm remote and do not always have access to the shared script server so I need my local install to be effective.

I appreciate any pointers for further troubleshooting.

Thanks!

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[Ross Scroggs]

See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Users-Gmail-Messages-Threads#manage-a-selected-set-of-messages

gam user acc...@domain.com trash messages query before:2024-01-01 max_to_trash N doit

Replace N with 0 to trash all matching messages, or some postive integer to limit the number of messages trashed.

Rpss

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Ross Scroggs

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[Scott Stahl]

Thank you.  I did find that in the docs yesterday:

• max_to_xxx - Limit the number of messages that will be displayed
• includespamtrash - Include messages in the Spam and Trash folders

I interpreted it to mean max_to_100, not max_to_trash 100