delete mbox mail from command line

From: Mark Gillingham (markgill_at_uwalumni.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:45:51 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    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
    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?
    >
    > Mark
    >
    >

    Another quesiton. Would Barrendero help? Judging from the package
    description, Barrendero would let me delete older messages while keeping
    fresh ones to feed to sa-learn. The description follows:

    Package: barrendero (1.0-1.2)
    delete messages on the spool dir depending on their age

    Barrendero is intended to limit the disk space wasted in the spool
    directory. It deletes mail messages depending on their age, and has the
    ability to send warnings and reports to the users, to make full and
    partial backups, and to have different allowed ages on a per-user basis.

    Warning and report messages are customizable and can be translated
    easily in order to make this package useful in any environment.

    This way of handling mail has an advantage over the traditional 'quota'
    system: quotas make the end user lose new mail, whereas barrendero
    deletes old mail, so that new mail is always available. 

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