Re: [MlMt] killing any imap / mailbox state

2020-04-18 Thread Randy Bush
on the victim's imap mail server, there seem to be two sets of imap folders: one in ~ and one in ~/Mail. how is that configured? i imagine i can just `cat` them as they are really just mbox format. but which should be the result, ~ or ~/Mail? of course, i would prefer the latter; but need the k

Re: [MlMt] killing any imap / mailbox state

2020-04-18 Thread Pete Resnick
On 18 Apr 2020, at 16:47, Randy Bush wrote: >>> so a family member seems to have achieved a 'creative' state in their >>> account; likely cause by things such as a Sent mailbox with ten years >>> of messages. is there a nice way to tell mailmate to clear all state >>> for an account, wipe all cac

Re: [MlMt] killing any imap / mailbox state

2020-04-18 Thread Randy Bush
> I also have a Python script that can select messages by date and > move them to a set of mailboxes―I've used that to clear out large > mail list ones, etc. that sounds tempting, if it will not get me in trouble with senior management for rearranging their mail. randy ___

Re: [MlMt] killing any imap / mailbox state

2020-04-18 Thread Randy Bush
>> so a family member seems to have achieved a 'creative' state in their >> account; likely cause by things such as a Sent mailbox with ten years >> of messages. is there a nice way to tell mailmate to clear all state >> for an account, wipe all caches, ...? > If you don't want to delete and re-ad

Re: [MlMt] killing any imap / mailbox state

2020-04-18 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On 18 Apr 2020, at 2:08, Randy Bush wrote: > so a family member seems to have achieved a 'creative' state in their > account; likely cause by things such as a Sent mailbox with ten years > of messages. is there a nice way to tell mailmate to clear all state > for an account, wipe all caches, ...?

Re: [MlMt] killing any imap / mailbox state

2020-04-17 Thread Pete Resnick
On 18 Apr 2020, at 1:08, Randy Bush wrote: so a family member seems to have achieved a 'creative' state in their account; likely cause by things such as a Sent mailbox with ten years of messages. is there a nice way to tell mailmate to clear all state for an account, wipe all caches, ...? If

[MlMt] killing any imap / mailbox state

2020-04-17 Thread Randy Bush
so a family member seems to have achieved a 'creative' state in their account; likely cause by things such as a Sent mailbox with ten years of messages. is there a nice way to tell mailmate to clear all state for an account, wipe all caches, ...? randy