[No messages expunged from folder "[Gmail]/All Mail"]

[nicholas]

I tried selecting messages in All Mail for deletion but this is failing
for this folder, whereas it works for other folders.

Perhaps there's a log to look at? This would seem to be possible:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11116075/4531180


Do the messages have to be moved to the trash in order to expunge?

Saving a test e-mail to the Gmail/Trash seems to have moved it from all
mail.


Perhaps there's a better way save and backup e-mails?



thanks,

Nick

[D]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2023, nicholas wrote:

> Perhaps there's a better way save and backup e-mails?

Hello Nick,

I use isync (mbsync) to backup all my imap email accounts locally. I have about
70k emails with the earliest from 2004. Works like a charm!

Best regards,
Daniel


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> thanks,
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[ni...@example.com]

On 2023-12-22, D <nos...@example.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023, nicholas wrote:
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>> Perhaps there's a better way save and backup e-mails?
>
> Hello Nick,
>
> I use isync (mbsync) to backup all my imap email accounts locally. I have about
> 70k emails with the earliest from 2004. Works like a charm!

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This looks interesting. Do you back up and delete from this All Mail directory?

[D]

Depends on the account. If it belongs to customers of mine, I usually
don't delete on the server. If it is my own private accounts where I
have a mailbox size limit, I download and delete the messages on the
server.

Best regards,
Daniel