Quentin Stafford-Fraser

Ah, that depends a lot on your mail server and on your mail client - see the first section of the README. Probably, once IMAPdedup has done its work, you...

Ah, you're quite right: there is an EXPUNGE command: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3501#section-6.4.3 I think, when I first wrote this, I probably decided that was too dangerous an operation! And I haven't yet...

Hi Tom - Ah, yes, this (first error) cropped up 6 years ago (#19). The standard Python imaplib library that I use has a limit on the length of the...

Mmm. Strange. Not much I can do there, I'm afraid, if imaplib can't cope with it; your server must be sending surprisingly long lines! You can try increasing _MAXLINE further....

Hi João, It looks as if you may have hit some limit on your server, or maybe it's timing out. I'd need to look more carefully at this and I'm...

Well, there are ways you could script it, but I would just use an email program to create a new folder, select all the messages in one year, and move...

Mmm. Do you have access to the server logs? The imaplib source says that '"abort" exceptions imply the connection should be reset, and the command re-tried.' So perhaps that's what...

Hi Jeff - I'm sorry for the delay in merging this - it looks good, though. My only concern is that the --global option changes the current default behaviour. I'm...

Thanks Tom - For the moment, I've done [a Python script](https://github.com/quentinsf/blackbox_decrypted_check) which checks the key conditions. It's hard to incorporate this into git hooks, so I'm assuming that it would...

In case it's relevant, I was having a problem with 1.28.5 on my Mac, where every command was taking at least 15 secs. I was using SSH to a remote...