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mutt

CLI e-mail client

Usage

http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html

j or Down       next-entry      move to the next entry
k or Up         previous-entry  move to the previous entry
z or PageDn     page-down       go to the next page
Z or PageUp     page-up         go to the previous page
= or Home       first-entry     jump to the first entry
* or End        last-entry      jump to the last entry
q               quit            exit the current menu
?               help            list all keybindings for the current menu

Message Deletion

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/mutt/manual-4.html

  • Delete e-mails older than 2012-12-01: [shift-d] ~d 1/12/12-1/1/1 # D/M/Y. this will only delete back to 2001-01-01
  • Delete messages where the body matches a search: [shift-d] ~b search\ pattern
  • Delete messages where the subject matches a search: [shift-d] ~s search\ pattern
  • Delete messages older than one month: [shift-d] ~d >1m
  • Delete messages older than 14 days: [shift-d] ~d > 14d