Re: Automatic deleting of old msgs in Mutt?

[Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:15:12 +0100, Andras Simonyi wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm struggling with the task of automatizing the deletion of too old
> messages in this list ;-). (They are in a separete mbox) I had a working
> script which could do this using the grepmail utility, but I'm curious
> whether this can be done from within Mutt... I thought that with a
> clever .muttrc it's possible and I experimented with the folder-hook
> command but without much success (the goal would be that Mutt could
> automatically delete messages older than 5 days when entering or leaving
> the folder), because itt seems that after the folder-hook command only
> setting of some variables is possible and not tagging etc.
> 
> TIA: Andras

Hi - I think that the following does just that:

  folder-hook mutt.incoming "push 'D~d >14d\n'"

It deletes messages older than 14 days from the folder mutt.incoming
right when I open it. Or rather: it marks for deletion.

Regards.

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  Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>