Deleting large number of emails from busy mailbox

[Vegard Svanberg]

Hi,

Latest mutt on local IMAP (Dovecot).

My mailbox is rather busy (and contains around half a million emails).

Say I want to delete 2000 emails.

I tag them, ;d and press X to expunge. Mutt starts fetching every email
(not sure why that is - does it have to?), then would normally remove
them after that.

Problem is: if a new email arrives during this process (which could take
a few minutes), Mutt never gets around to actually removing the
messages. It just seems to abort in the middle of the operation and I
have to do expunge again until I eventually succeed after a few
attempts.

Anything I could do my end to solve this?

Thanks!

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Vegard Svanberg <vegard at svanberg.no> [*Takapa at IRC (EFnet)]