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Re: Operations on many messages



On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:31:42PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
Rodrigo, et al --

...and then Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel said...
% % On Mon, Nov 17 2003 at 02:14:58AM BRST, Aaron <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
% > 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.
% ...
%         That is, "tag all messages matching the following pattern: message
% in range 10-1000", then "apply the following to all tagged messages:
% delete".

Close to what I'd do, but I'd use delete-pattern instead of tag-pattern
and gloss over a step :-)



I'd use the tagging instead as well.  Not being an expert with Mutt's pattern
matching, I'd like to see what I just marked for deleting before I zapped it.
Also, the patterns can be built on date ranges, emails between certain dates,
emails greater then X days old, etc. It's all in the fine manual.

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