Comments on: Deleting all e-mail messages in your inbox with mutt

By: Cj

Cj — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:56:32 +0000

I always liked telnet its present on most systems as a client application so you don't need to install anything at all. Its great for killing over sized messages quickly that gum up regular email clients like outlook.

By: Jonathan Perkin

Jonathan Perkin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:46:46 +0000

"D." - even shorter

By: Mutt Tips « High-Toned

Mutt Tips « High-Toned — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:25:23 +0000

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By: Major Hayden

Major Hayden — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:47:02 +0000

Dmitri - that's a handy tip!

By: Dmitri Minaev

Dmitri Minaev — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:44:58 +0000

~s .* selects all messages by subjects. A better (IMHO) way to select all messages is:

It does not expect any regular expressions, it just selects everything. To mark all messages as deleted, press:

D~A

By: Hendy Irawan

Hendy Irawan — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:27:27 +0000

Thanks a lot! I just did this with my 1600+ (junk) mutt messages. Really helpful.

By: Onlineagentur

Onlineagentur — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:39:39 +0000

Thanx for this great Tutorial!

By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:49:01 +0000

The easier way is:
T~s .*;d$

T to enable tag mode, ~s.* to select everything matching your subject (or .* for everything), and ;d to delete said tagged messages. The final $ will cause mutt to sync your changes to the mailbox if you don't want to quit.