delete email

[oneano 8]

What input does delete email expect? I have put in a variable holding a number, but that isnt working. What is going on here?

[JohnB 255]

when you connect to email, you need to create a table (inside the connection node). The parameter for deleting emails is based on the table rows which are 0 based. So if you want to delete the first row(1st email) then the position is 0...2nd email, the position is 1, etc.

 

 

John

[oneano 8]

Yes this is what I have done.

 

http://imgur.com/dSssa

 

$table total rows is the email table.

#emaildelete is the variable starting at 0

 

What is curious is that delete email has a dropdown, like it expects a different input.

[JohnB 255]

Are you trying to delete all the emails, or just a specific email? (you don't need table total rows, or set variables)

 

John

[oneano 8]

So just leave it blank to delete all emails?

[JohnB 255]

no...you add a loop, using table total rows (sorry I wasn't thinking about the loop when I answered)...then drag in a delete emails and use position 0. It will loop through the table deleting the first email until all are deleted.

 

 

John

[oneano 8]

Ah yes...I was expecting it to work differently. I think that I have it working now. Thanks JohnB

[VaultBoss 310]

no...you add a loop, using table total rows (sorry I wasn't thinking about the loop when I answered)...then drag in a delete emails and use position 0. It will loop through the table deleting the first email until all are deleted.

 

 

John

 

@John... so is it in fact supposed to delete only the email in position #0?...

 

I did try to delete an email from another row in the table and it doesn't work.

 

I see the thread is kinda old~ish but I have also seen other people having the same issue still today.

 

So is this working or not?

 

Anyone has some input/experience?

[webpro 31]

Just tried this

loop($table total rows(&emails)) {
    delete email(0)
}

It's not working

[VaultBoss 310]

You have to run it from within the Connect to eMail Server Node, not outside

[webpro 31]

Ok i just did this and it's not working.

 

connect to mail server("IMAP With SSL", #username, #password, "imap.gmail.com", 993) {
    loop($list total(%emails to delete)) {
        delete email($next list item(%emails to delete))
    }
}

%emails to delete populated

Debugger:

(0): 2

(1): 15

(2): 23

 

Noticed that %emails to delete list, picked up exactly the emails i wish to delete but it's not deleting them.

What am i missing in my setup ?

 

ERROR:

Lenght cannot be less than zero.

Parameter name: lenght