> > can one delete all the contents of a mailbox in mutt *without* > > having to change into the mailbox ? I have 5000 msgs in a mailbox > > and it will take forever over NFS to change into that folder. Here's what I do to my spam mailbox: cd Mail sa-learn --spam --mbox spam > spam That last line is the one you want... Should work with most shells. I affectionately refer to it as the "nuke spam" command :) B*B, -Smoke.