You can use folder hooks to delete, say, anything older than a month that isn't marked important:
folder-hook IN\.mutt 'push D~r>1m!~F<enter>' This will be done automatically when you load the specified folder. Steve Charles Gagnon wrote: > Is there a way to tag or delete by date. I use to do this a while back using > mush. Since I have a lot of folders where I get reports (i.e. backup reports > for example), deleting by date was an easy way to keep only the current and > previous month for example. All I would need is a way to say "tag/delete > everything older than <specific date>" or even "tag/delete everything older > than <number of days>", whatever is easier. > > If it's not in there, it would be a great feature.