[Users] How to save all attachments from all emails in a folder?

Andrej Kacian ticho at claws-mail.org
Fri Mar 2 19:35:50 CET 2018


On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 19:43:49 +0200
Removed GDPR <removed-gdpr at example.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately for some reason it works only for 1600 mails. If I select
> 1601 and try to run the action Claws tells me (sanitized the paste):
> 
> ---
> Could not fork to execute the following command:
> export METAMAIL_TMPDIR=/tmp/download; metamail -w -x -q
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/100"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/99"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/98"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/97"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/96"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/95"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/94"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/93"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/92"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/91"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.com/████/DMARC/90"
> "/home/████/.claws-mail/imapcache/imap.gmail.c
> ---

That looks like you're hitting the shell command length limit ("getconf
ARG_MAX" to see the exact limit), since this action seems to try doing
it all in one command.

-- 
Andrej



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