[PR PATCH] Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

[PR PATCH] Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

[hills]

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There is a new pull request by hills against master on the mblaze repository

https://github.com/hills/mblaze master
https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/237

Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails
Discussed in #236.

A patch file from https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/237.patch is attached

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From 6fbc7ff488c341c19c8cb73ed4c73d8c780d6e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Hills <mark@xwax.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:07:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

Discussed in #236.
---
 man/mblaze.7 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/mblaze.7 b/man/mblaze.7
index 328bcef..47d0efa 100644
--- a/man/mblaze.7
+++ b/man/mblaze.7
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ thread it and look at it interactively:
 Or you could list the attachments of the 20 largest messages in your INBOX:
 .Dl mlist ~/Maildir/INBOX | msort -S | tail -20 | mshow -t
 .Pp
+Or delete messages beyond a certain age:
+.Dl mlist ~/Maildir/INBOX | mpick -t 'mtime < \&"365d\&"' | xargs rm
+.Pp
 Or apply the patches from the current message:
 .Dl mshow -O . '*.diff' | patch
 .Pp

Re: Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

[leahneukirchen]

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New comment by leahneukirchen on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/237#issuecomment-1490394151

Comment:
`-` missing before 365d.

Re: [PR PATCH] [Updated] Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

[hills]

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There is an updated pull request by hills against master on the mblaze repository

https://github.com/hills/mblaze master
https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/237

Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails
Discussed in #236.

A patch file from https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/237.patch is attached

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From 0030a3518eb53a04b3ee4246f1f9fb08b0c4120c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Hills <mark@xwax.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:07:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

Discussed in #236.
---
 man/mblaze.7 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/mblaze.7 b/man/mblaze.7
index 328bcef..da2aebf 100644
--- a/man/mblaze.7
+++ b/man/mblaze.7
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ thread it and look at it interactively:
 Or you could list the attachments of the 20 largest messages in your INBOX:
 .Dl mlist ~/Maildir/INBOX | msort -S | tail -20 | mshow -t
 .Pp
+Or delete messages beyond a certain age:
+.Dl mlist ~/Maildir/INBOX | mpick -t 'mtime < \&"-365d\&"' | xargs rm
+.Pp
 Or apply the patches from the current message:
 .Dl mshow -O . '*.diff' | patch
 .Pp

Re: Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

[hills]

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New comment by hills on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/237#issuecomment-1490403108

Comment:
> `-` missing before 365d.

Doh, sorry. I accidentally deleted it wrangling the escaping of the double quotes. I've replaced the patch.

Now might be a good time to ask why the double quotes are necessary? The nesting of quotes makes things a little untidy.

Re: Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

[leahneukirchen]

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New comment by leahneukirchen on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/237#issuecomment-1490419713

Comment:
mpick design questions go to @Duncaen ;)

Re: [PR PATCH] [Merged]: Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails

[leahneukirchen]

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There's a merged pull request on the mblaze repository

Document a reasonable practice for deleting mails
https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/237

Description:
Discussed in #236.