Mutt Tips

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Contents 1 Open Mailbox with Mutt 2 Tag Email 2.1 To tag a date range, use the following Expressions 2.2 To tag for Subject 2.3 To tag all message to: or cc:

Open Mailbox with Mutt

mutt -f /home/username/Maildir/

• Now you are in the Mailbox from the command line

Tag Email

Shift+T 

• then enter Tag Espression ( See below)
• Once messages are tagged we must tell Mutt what to do with the messages that are tagged, we use ;

; d

• to Delete all tagged messages

To tag a date range, use the following Expressions

T ~d 1/10-31/10 

• To tag emails with Date 10/1-10/31

T ~d -31/10 

• To tag emails before Oct, 31.

T ~d 1/10-  

• For anything after Oct, 1.)

To tag for Subject

T -s Error Email

• To tag all emails with Subject "Error Email"

To tag all message to: or cc:

T -C blade5k

• To tag all emails with to: or cc: 'blade5k'

http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#patterns