* Charles Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-27 20:07]:
> Is there a way to tag or delete by date.

yes - you can tag messages by pattern "~d"
which acceses their 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>"

  ~d dd/mm/yyyy-

> or even
> "tag/delete everything older than <number of days>",
> whatever is easier.

this is not included - sorry.

for more info see my setup page, section "Moving old messages";
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/setup.html#moving_mails

Sven

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