On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 06:44:42PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > procmail might have worked, but it's more of a pain to learn procmail > > than it is to write my own filter. I also get more flexibility this way. > > > > The write-up of my approach is at > > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/02/msg00100.html>. > > Maildrop does exactly this. For instance, > > ^From:.*User Name/ > > Transforms to this snippet of .mailfilter: > > if ( /^From:.*User Name/:h ) > to /dev/null > > Works with exim, postfix and probably qmail OOB. >
Could this also be expanded to delete not only mail from a particular user, but also any mail *replying to* that mail as well? In other words, get rid of not only the mail that starts a thread, but the entire thread? Or would that be a task better done in mutt? Mark
