Racker Hacker » imap http://rackerhacker.com Words of wisdom from a server administrator Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:07:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Deleting all e-mail messages in your inbox with mutt http://rackerhacker.com/2009/06/19/deleting-all-e-mail-messages-in-your-inbox-with-mutt/ http://rackerhacker.com/2009/06/19/deleting-all-e-mail-messages-in-your-inbox-with-mutt/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:37:58 +0000 Major Hayden http://rackerhacker.com/?p=934 Deleting all e-mail messages in your inbox with mutt is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog.

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]]> Occasionally, I'll end up with a mailbox full of random data, alerts, or other useless things. If you have SSH access to the server, you can always clear out your mail spool, but if you connect to an IMAP server, you can use mutt to do the same thing.

First, use mutt to connect to your server remotely (via IMAP over SSL in this example):

mutt -f imaps://mail.yourdomain.com/

Once you've connected and logged in, press SHIFT-D (uppercase d). The status bar of mutt should show:

Delete messages matching:

Type in ~s .* so that the line looks like:

Delete messages matching: ~s .*

When you press enter, mutt will put a D next to all of the messages, which marks them for deletion. Press q to quit, and then y to confirm the deletion. After a brief moment, all of those messages will be deleted and mutt will exit.

Update: If you review Dmitri's comment below, there's an even faster way to remove all of the messages in a mailbox with mutt. Just hold shift while pressing D, ~ (tilde), and A to select everything:

D~A

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]]> http://rackerhacker.com/2009/06/19/deleting-all-e-mail-messages-in-your-inbox-with-mutt/feed/ 7 Plesk 8.4.0: Unable to use short names for POP3/IMAP http://rackerhacker.com/2008/07/28/plesk-840-unable-to-use-short-names-for-pop3imap/ http://rackerhacker.com/2008/07/28/plesk-840-unable-to-use-short-names-for-pop3imap/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:08:50 +0000 Major Hayden http://rackerhacker.com/?p=318 Plesk 8.4.0: Unable to use short names for POP3/IMAP is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog.

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]]> If you recently upgraded to Plesk 8.4.0 with short names enabled, you may have found that it's working with SMTP, but it doesn't work with POP3 or IMAP. There's a bug in the Plesk version that prevents the courier configuration from being updated.

To correct the issue, first make sure that Plesk has short names enabled (Server > Mail). Once you've confirmed that Plesk thinks it's enabled, add SHORTNAMES=1 to the following configuration files:

  • /etc/courier-imap/imapd
  • /etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl
  • /etc/courier-imap/pop3d
  • /etc/courier-imap/pop3d-ssl

Restart courier-imap with /etc/init.d/courier-imap restart and you should be all set.

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