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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:24:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10705230924n3c5e9f8bve9674d7b2a7355b3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070518140047.DA4691E8C26@holo.morphisms.net>

On 5/18/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > I read my email with p9ps acme and mailfs and searching  for
> > a  possibility to delete mails via script. Would be nice if I can
> > "blacklist" some threads. There are a "ctl" and a "search" file in the
> > mbox but I don't know exactly how to use both.
>
> The search file is unused (but implemented).
> The idea is you write a search string
> and read back a list of message ids.

so, I was messing around in acme mail, and wanted to try something like this:
Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/d
I.e. blow messages away from those guys, but I never got it to quite
work. What am I missing?

thanks

ron


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-23 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-18  7:32 Matthias Teege
2007-05-18 14:00 ` Russ Cox
2007-05-18 14:20   ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-21 22:48   ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-21 23:03     ` Russ Cox
2007-05-21 23:11       ` Felipe Bichued
2007-05-23 16:24   ` ron minnich [this message]
2007-05-23 16:50     ` Russ Cox
2007-05-23 16:53       ` ron minnich
2007-05-23 16:58         ` Russ Cox
2007-05-23 17:04           ` Sape Mullender
2007-05-23 17:07           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-05-23 18:05             ` David Leimbach
2007-05-23 17:02         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-05-23 18:03     ` David Leimbach

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