I'm saving large numbers of messages from IMAP (Gmail) to local storage
and am looking at:
FEATURE: Save Will Not Delete
This feature controls one aspect of the Save command. If set, Save will
not mark the message "deleted" (its default behavior) after it has been >copied to the designated folder.
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Now, if there's a networking or other problem, what happens on a bulk >operation? Is the message deleted only once successfully saved? Is
that done individually for each message?
In a typical setup, the message isn't deleted but marked for deletion.
Upon closing the folder, the expunge command is executed (or the user is asked to confirm expunge), which deletes messages marked for deletion.
As you are taking Eduardo's advice, moving several hundred messages at a time, I would set Save Will Not Delete, then after SUCCESSFULLY copying
the first group of messages into the desired mbox archive folder, mark
the messages to be deleted in the remote folder with the bulk selection command first "; N [range]", then apply the deletion mark with the apply command "a d" then MANUALLY expunge messages marked for deletion with
"x".
These are additional steps to take but if your connection goes kerflooey during your attempt to copy messages in bulk, this may keep you out of
some trouble.
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