Delete all emails in gmail

[Jason Bochat]

I'm trying to delete all emails in a user's gmail by using gam user users...@example.org delete messages query all doit

I know it's the query argument I have wrong, I've tried the following after query too with no success:

rfc822msgid:

older_than:3m

left it blank

didn't even type the query argument in

It did run once using gam user user...@example.org delete messages query all doit but it only deleted one message.

Also the maxtomodify or maxto arguments can't be found by GAM           

[Jay Lee]

With:

"query all"

you are searching Gmail for the text "all". The first time you ran you probably deleted emails with the word all in them. To actually delete everything don't specify query at all:

gam user users...@example.org delete messages doit

of course you'll also need to specify maxtodelete to confirm you definitely want to delete more than 1 message (sorry for the hassle on the commands but it's the best way to try to avoid accidental command line disaster)

gam user users...@example.org delete messages doit maxtodelete 99999999999

Jay Lee

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[Ross Scroggs]

Jay,

$ gam user testuser2 delete messages doit

ERROR: No query specified. You must specify some query!

Ross

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[Jay Lee]

Bah, the API doesn't require a query but I suppose we decide to make it required in order to avoid accidental mailbox-wide wipes.

Jason, you can use:

gam user users...@example.org delete messages query "in:anywhere" doit

Jay Lee

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[Jason Bochat]

Thanks! Before I got this I tried older_than:1hr and that worked. I'll follow up after I try in:anywhere

Jason

[James SEYMOUR]

You could also use query before:<yyyy-mm-dd> and specify tomorrow's date