How to delete all messages under a label

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Johnnie W Adams

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Feb 20, 2023, 4:43:07 PM2/20/23
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Hi, folks,

     I've got a user who'd like to delete all the mail under a very heavily nested set of lables. I naïvely tried this search:

gam user me trash messages query label:Foo*


     to try to trash all messages under Foo, including Foo/Bar, but it unsurprisingly did not work. Can this be done in a single line? Or do I have to do a little Linux magic (which I like doing)?

Thanks,

     John A
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Ross Scroggs

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Feb 20, 2023, 5:31:02 PM2/20/23
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John,


gam user me trash messages labelmatchpattern Foo

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Gordon Suchomski

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Dec 9, 2024, 2:58:51 PM12/9/24
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Hello,

for some reason the labelmatchpattern work for show messages but it did not work for trash messages

DUS-Ramp PST % gam user f.s@d trash messages labelmatchpattern OutlookDatendatei
Command: /Users/g/bin/gamadv-xtd3/gam user f.s@d trash messages labelmatchpattern OutlookDatendatei >>><<<

ERROR: Missing argument: Expected <query|matchlabel|ids>
Help: Syntax in file /Users/gordon/bin/gamadv-xtd3/GamCommands.txt
Help: Documentation is at https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki

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Ross Scroggs

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See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Users-Gmail-Messages-Threads#display-messagesthreads

These commands only have matchlabel, try that.

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Gordon Suchomski

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Dec 9, 2024, 10:42:34 PM12/9/24
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Maybe this will be helpful for someone.
This script deletes all messages and labels matching a grep pattern:
user="$1"
labelpattern="$2"
doit="$3"
deleteLabels="$4"

if [ -z "$user" ] || [ -z "$labelpattern" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <user> <labelpattern> [doit] [deleteLabels]"
echo "Example: $0 test...@your.domain rootLabelName doit deleteLabels"
echo "If 'doit' is not specified, the script will only show affected labels/messages."
echo "If 'deleteLabels' is specified, the labels themselves will also be deleted."
exit 1
fi

gam user "$user" show labels useronly display fullname | grep "$labelpattern" | \
while read -r label; do
echo "$label"
# Nachrichten löschen (mit oder ohne doit)
if [ "$doit" = "doit" ]; then
gam user "$user" delete messages matchlabel "$label" max_to_process 0 doit
else
gam user "$user" delete messages matchlabel "$label" max_to_process 0
fi

# Labels löschen falls verlangt
if [ "$deleteLabels" = "deleteLabels" ]; then
gam user "$user" delete label "$label"
fi
done

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