====== Mutt ======

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===== Tag/delete messages older than... =====

The command to tag messages by pattern in mutt is ''T'' (shift+t) and the command to delete messages by pattern is ''D'' (shift+d).

If you just want to delete messages, you can use the ''D'' command, because it marks the messages that match the pattern you provide in the next step - the actual deletion happens only after the confirmation of the last step.

So first fire up the ''D'' command and mutt will open a prompt with a short explanation: "//Delete messages matching://". As said before this step won't delete the matching messages, but mark them for deletion.\\ 
To delete all messages that are older than let's say 180 days enter the following pattern:

  ~d>180d

<note>I have seen tutorials on the internet where the patterns have been written with spaces, but for me it just worked without spaces between them</note>

**Description**

<WRAP half>
^ ''~d'' | So called [[https://man.archlinux.org/man/muttrc.5#Simple_Patterns|simple pattern]] to messages with "//date-sent//" in date range |
^ ''>'' | A comparison operator: "//bigger than//" |
^ ''180d'' | 180**d**(ays) |
</WRAP>

With tagging patterns work the same. After tagging messaged you can hit '';'' to apply a command to all tagged messages.

Absolute dates must be in the following format ''DD/MM/YY''