Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
I am giving first aid after the war but still it will help.
I can give a lot of relief to those of you who had nervous breakdowns
and blood pressure problems due to spam mails getting in the way of
useful technical stuff.
It is not hard at all.
First thing is install mutt from packages.
# pkg_add -i mutt
(Choose one of the flavors)
Then get a cool muttrc. If you want mine mail me offlist.
There are several good ones floating on the Internet ocean.
Next ensure this. It is most critical.
$ grep sort ~/.muttrc
set sort="threads"
Now just watch the fun.
Whenever you see a thread with the favorite subject line or as soon as
you read the first mail that is a symptom of impending health problems,
all you have to do is hit "Ctrl-D". All the mails in the thread get
deleted. Cool eh?
This is the OpenBSD way of solving real life problems with a bit of
technical knowledge instead of pleading and complaining. ;)
Anyway hopefully my recipe will come in handy for future occasions.
History repeats itself...
-Girish
If you're using Seamonkey Mail, enable the "Thread" header in the
message header pane. Then click on the thread icon and press Shift+Delete.
-pachl
