Re: Operations on many messages
On Mon, Nov 17 2003 at 02:14:58AM BRST, Aaron <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey everyone.
>
> I got a neat macro for setting all of the messages in a particular
> mailbox as "read", but what I could really use is a way to delete the
> first couple thousand messages (or, ideally, any range of messages). It
> would be very helpful for trimming my mailing list mailboxes.
tag them?
T ~m 10-1000 RET
;d
That is, "tag all messages matching the following pattern: message
in range 10-1000", then "apply the following to all tagged messages:
delete".
rbp
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