Re: expiring threads in mutt

[Mark Wagnon <mwagnon@smaug.home.net>]

On 11/28/99 11:20PM, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:

> Anyone know how to get mutt to automatically delete messages after a
> certain age, preferrably only if the entire thread has been inactive for
> that time (I like to archive active threads).

I don't know about inactive threads, but to remove old messages you
can try the following:

  mutt -f folder-to-expire -e 'set delete;push D~r>20d<enter>q'

I'm not sure how it works. Your post prompted me to find a solution.
I've wanted something like this for awhile now. I'm going to try it
out tonight.

BTW, I got it off of the Mutt Users Mail Archive. Just do a search on
expire. The thread I got this from starts near the bottom of the first
page. Oh, lets see if this URL works:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg04288.html

Try that and see...just to be sure I'm not screwing with you.

HTH
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