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Delete messages containing a keyword in mutt

Shell Script (Bash) posted about 1 year ago by marko

Bulk operations in mutt, a console based email client, are easy. Here’s how to delete messages containing the keyword ‘Newsletter’.

   1  T
   2  Newsletter
   3  ;
   4  d
   5  $
T – asks which messages you want to tag and you reply with ‘Newsletter’.

; – asks which action you want to run on the tagged messages.

d – tells that the action you want is delete.

$ – synchronizes the view with the underlying persistence layer.

Tagged mutt, mail, bulk, delete