From adfb7a63d7ba05152d630fb1a505b95dcde38038 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:36:57 +0000
Subject: don't delete more than a certain number of messages at a time. The
max command len is limited. Fixes bug 942403 (Archiving large IMAP folders
fails)
---
archivemail.py | 11 ++++++++---
1 file 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()
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