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    From Nicholas Saunders@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 28 23:31:43 2023
    I'm working with gmail and want the batch export to fail nicely, but also to delete e-mails which are exported successfully.

    Can this be automated somehow? So that as an e-mail is exported it's immediately deleted, for example.


    Thanks,

    Nick

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Nicholas Saunders on Wed Nov 29 21:16:50 2023
    On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

    I'm working with gmail and want the batch export to fail nicely, but
    also to delete e-mails which are exported successfully.

    Alpine has a setting

    [ ] Save Will Not Delete

    which if you have disabled as above, then saving messages will marke them deleted in the imap folder. Please note that the word "export" does not
    mean "save" in the alpine speak. Exporting a message means to save it as
    you see it in your screen, and that does not include attachments. Saving a message means to copy it to another folder, and this what you want to do,
    so you have full access to it.

    In regards to automation, you want to use the "; select" command. My
    advice is that you use it as follows:

    ; N 1-500 <return>

    this will select the first 500 messages. After this tell Alpine to

    a s <input name of folder to save these messages to> <return>

    and wait for this to complete. This is an atomic operation. What this
    means is that either all 500 messages will be copied to the destination
    folder or none of them will be copied. So after the case where 200
    messages are copied and 300 are not will not happen. After that you can
    press "X" to expunge the deleted messages and transfer messages 1 to 500
    again.

    I hope this helps.

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    Eduardo
    https://alpineapp.email (web)
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  • From Nicholas Saunders@21:1/5 to Eduardo Chappa on Wed Nov 29 22:15:44 2023
    On Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at 20:16:55 UTC-8, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
    On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

    I'm working with gmail and want the batch export to fail nicely, but
    also to delete e-mails which are exported successfully.
    Alpine has a setting

    [ ] Save Will Not Delete

    which if you have disabled as above, then saving messages will marke them deleted in the imap folder. Please note that the word "export" does not
    mean "save" in the alpine speak. Exporting a message means to save it as
    you see it in your screen, and that does not include attachments. Saving a message means to copy it to another folder, and this what you want to do,
    so you have full access to it.

    In regards to automation, you want to use the "; select" command. My
    advice is that you use it as follows:

    ; N 1-500 <return>

    this will select the first 500 messages. After this tell Alpine to

    a s <input name of folder to save these messages to> <return>

    and wait for this to complete. This is an atomic operation. What this
    means is that either all 500 messages will be copied to the destination folder or none of them will be copied. So after the case where 200
    messages are copied and 300 are not will not happen. After that you can
    press "X" to expunge the deleted messages and transfer messages 1 to 500 again.

    I hope this helps.

    --
    Eduardo
    https://alpineapp.email (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)


    Absolutely. I've been using export, so your suggestion to use save makes sense. I'll look into adding access to local folders.


    Thanks,

    Nick

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