IMAPClient Fails when storing large amount of messages in deleted

helpo11 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All,

Here's my dilemma, I use Mail::IMAPClient to access and clean out my imap messages once a week; however, after a certain amount of messages it fails to do anything. I do get the error message, Trying command when NOT connected! at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Mail/IMAPClient.pm line 118....

Though I am to able to manually log into imap and remove the messages manually, and rerun the script without any issues.

Is the there a limitation on the amount of messages, IMAPClient can handle? i.e. expunge or store in deleted folder

Is Net::IMAP::Simple a better option?

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Re: IMAPClient Fails when storing large amount of messages in deleted by naChoZ (Curate) on Oct 17, 2013 at 18:14 UTC
It's more likely that it's timing out while waiting for the imap server to complete the operation. Instead of sending a mass delete of a bunch of messages, break it up into chunks. Something along the lines of: `my $msgset = Mail::IMAPClient::MessageSet->new( $imap->messages ); my $msg_ids = []; if ( $msgset ) { $msg_ids = $msgset->unfold; } while ( my @cur_block = splice @$msg_ids, 0, 500 ) { # delete the current block of messages... }` [download] Untested of course. Hopefully that gets you going in the right direction. -- Andy	[reply] [d/l]
Re: IMAPClient Fails when storing large amount of messages in deleted by marinersk (Priest) on Oct 17, 2013 at 19:01 UTC
I had the same problem with my mail deletion routine. I, too, theorized the operation was timing out. I wrapped it into a loop where it deletes 100 messages at a time. The problem has never returned. NOTE: Re-read the inbox count at the start of each loop and terminate if you are out of messages. You are not allowed to ask how I know this is important. `:-)`	[reply] [d/l]


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