Re: delete mbox mail from command line

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Gillingham wrote: > I appreciate the example of using find with time parameters. It's true > that my current setup is not Maildir. The documentation is not complete > for barrendero, I have not tried barrendero and know nothing more about it then what I read from the documentation. > but a

Re: delete mbox mail from command line

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Juha Siltala wrote: > Tom Furie wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > You can look at just read messages leaving unread messages untouched > > > by finding only in the new directory. > > > find ~/Mail/Maildir/new -type f -mtime +7 -print > > > > Don't you mean the cur directory? Ah, yes, the cur di

Re: delete mbox mail from command line

2004-07-03 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-07-03, Tom Furie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:42:31AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> You can look at just read messages leaving unread messages untouched >> by finding only in the new directory. >> >> find ~/Mail/Maildir/new -type f -mtime +7 -print > > Don't yo

Re: delete mbox mail from command line

2004-07-03 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:42:31AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > You can look at just read messages leaving unread messages untouched > by finding only in the new directory. > > find ~/Mail/Maildir/new -type f -mtime +7 -print Don't you mean the cur directory? Cheers, Tom -- "They ought to mak

Re: delete mbox mail from command line

2004-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Gillingham wrote: > In Mutt, I just learned;), that one might delete messages more than 1 > week old like this: > > D ~ >1w > > followed by q (quit) and y (yes, I want to purge the messages). > > How might I do this from the command line in Mutt or another application? I don't know how to do

delete mbox mail from command line

2004-06-30 Thread Mark Gillingham
A kind list member pointed out that I had previously begun this thread in another thread. I know that I should not have done that. Please excuse me. Following is my original message and a follow-up. Mark Gillingham wrote: > In Mutt, I just learned;), that one might delete messages more than 1 w