How to delete emails for mutt?

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I need to know if there is a way to delete messages off mutt mailarchive. I tried to do it in the following way:

#!/bin/bash
#
#
# Usage: 
# ~r : DELETE
# 1y! : 1 year
# 2y! : 2 years
# 7d! : 7 days
# 30d! : 30 days
#

mailbox="/path/to/user/mailbox"
deletePattern="7d!"

mutt -f $mailbox -F/dev/null -e "push <delete-pattern>~r>$deletePattern<enter><sync-mailbox>y<enter><exit>q"

But the syntax is not deleting the entire messages. This is the way that someone told me in order to do it manually:

ssh into the SMTP server.

Run the command: mutt -f /var/mail/mailarchive. After the command is finished running, press D

Then type in ~d dd/mm/yyyy-dd/mm/yyyy which is the date range to delete the files. Example: ~d 01/06/2018-15/06/2018

Press q to quit

Then a prompt will come up to confirm. Press y.

Pressing q and then y might need to be done a few times before the delete kicks off.

Then check in the Postfix portal in the user mailboxes to see if the deletion worked.

edited Sep 9 at 20:41

Rui F Ribeiro

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I need to know if there is a way to delete messages off mutt mailarchive. I tried to do it in the following way:

#!/bin/bash
#
#
# Usage: 
# ~r : DELETE
# 1y! : 1 year
# 2y! : 2 years
# 7d! : 7 days
# 30d! : 30 days
#

mailbox="/path/to/user/mailbox"
deletePattern="7d!"

mutt -f $mailbox -F/dev/null -e "push <delete-pattern>~r>$deletePattern<enter><sync-mailbox>y<enter><exit>q"

But the syntax is not deleting the entire messages. This is the way that someone told me in order to do it manually:

ssh into the SMTP server.

Run the command: mutt -f /var/mail/mailarchive. After the command is finished running, press D

Then type in ~d dd/mm/yyyy-dd/mm/yyyy which is the date range to delete the files. Example: ~d 01/06/2018-15/06/2018

Press q to quit

Then a prompt will come up to confirm. Press y.

Pressing q and then y might need to be done a few times before the delete kicks off.

Then check in the Postfix portal in the user mailboxes to see if the deletion worked.

edited Sep 9 at 20:41

Rui F Ribeiro

36.8k1272117

asked Aug 31 at 14:43

user3513091

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I need to know if there is a way to delete messages off mutt mailarchive. I tried to do it in the following way:

#!/bin/bash
#
#
# Usage: 
# ~r : DELETE
# 1y! : 1 year
# 2y! : 2 years
# 7d! : 7 days
# 30d! : 30 days
#

mailbox="/path/to/user/mailbox"
deletePattern="7d!"

mutt -f $mailbox -F/dev/null -e "push <delete-pattern>~r>$deletePattern<enter><sync-mailbox>y<enter><exit>q"

But the syntax is not deleting the entire messages. This is the way that someone told me in order to do it manually:

ssh into the SMTP server.

Run the command: mutt -f /var/mail/mailarchive. After the command is finished running, press D

Then type in ~d dd/mm/yyyy-dd/mm/yyyy which is the date range to delete the files. Example: ~d 01/06/2018-15/06/2018

Press q to quit

Then a prompt will come up to confirm. Press y.

Pressing q and then y might need to be done a few times before the delete kicks off.

Then check in the Postfix portal in the user mailboxes to see if the deletion worked.

edited Sep 9 at 20:41

Rui F Ribeiro

36.8k1272117

asked Aug 31 at 14:43

user3513091

I need to know if there is a way to delete messages off mutt mailarchive. I tried to do it in the following way:

#!/bin/bash
#
#
# Usage: 
# ~r : DELETE
# 1y! : 1 year
# 2y! : 2 years
# 7d! : 7 days
# 30d! : 30 days
#

mailbox="/path/to/user/mailbox"
deletePattern="7d!"

mutt -f $mailbox -F/dev/null -e "push <delete-pattern>~r>$deletePattern<enter><sync-mailbox>y<enter><exit>q"

But the syntax is not deleting the entire messages. This is the way that someone told me in order to do it manually:

ssh into the SMTP server.

Run the command: mutt -f /var/mail/mailarchive. After the command is finished running, press D

Then type in ~d dd/mm/yyyy-dd/mm/yyyy which is the date range to delete the files. Example: ~d 01/06/2018-15/06/2018

Press q to quit

Then a prompt will come up to confirm. Press y.

Pressing q and then y might need to be done a few times before the delete kicks off.

Then check in the Postfix portal in the user mailboxes to see if the deletion worked.

bash mutt

edited Sep 9 at 20:41

Rui F Ribeiro

36.8k1272117

asked Aug 31 at 14:43

user3513091

edited Sep 9 at 20:41

Rui F Ribeiro

36.8k1272117

asked Aug 31 at 14:43

user3513091

edited Sep 9 at 20:41

Rui F Ribeiro

36.8k1272117

edited Sep 9 at 20:41

Rui F Ribeiro

36.8k1272117

edited Sep 9 at 20:41

Rui F Ribeiro

36.8k1272117

asked Aug 31 at 14:43

user3513091

asked Aug 31 at 14:43

user3513091

asked Aug 31 at 14:43

user3513091

add a commentÂ |Â

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