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| -rwxr-xr-x | archivemail.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/archivemail.py b/archivemail.py index cee8a9f..3d42b86 100755 --- a/archivemail.py +++ b/archivemail.py @@ -1279,9 +1279,14 @@ def _archive_imap(mailbox_name, final_archive_name): if archive: archive.close() archive.finalise() - vprint("Deleting messages") - imap_srv.store(string.join(message_list, ','), - '+FLAGS.SILENT', '\\Deleted') + # do not delete more than a certain number of messages at a time, because the + # command length is limited. This avoids that servers terminate the connection with + # EOF or TCP RST. + vprint("Deleting %s messages" % len(message_list)) + max_delete = 100 + for i in range(0, len(message_list), max_delete): + imap_srv.store(string.join(message_list[i:i+max_delete], ','), + '+FLAGS.SILENT', '\\Deleted') imap_srv.close() imap_srv.logout() |