From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10705230924n3c5e9f8bve9674d7b2a7355b3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:24:07 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script In-Reply-To: <20070518140047.DA4691E8C26@holo.morphisms.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070518140047.DA4691E8C26@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 70c67186-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/18/07, Russ Cox 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