From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60705231103y4fc9b69end76f925cf45205f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:03:31 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" 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: <13426df10705230924n3c5e9f8bve9674d7b2a7355b3@mail.gmail.com> 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> <13426df10705230924n3c5e9f8bve9674d7b2a7355b3@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 710f8e20-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/23/07, ron minnich wrote: > 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 > What do you have against flowers? :-)