Is it possible to delete all mail in which the subject matches a regex pattern?
For example, to delete message 1, you do:
d 1
But to delete all mail with subject starting with, say, [SPAM]
, I can't do:
d -s "^\[SPAM\].*$"
mail-command
Is it possible to delete all mail in which the subject matches a regex pattern?
For example, to delete message 1, you do:
d 1
But to delete all mail with subject starting with, say, [SPAM]
, I can't do:
d -s "^\[SPAM\].*$"
Best Answer
I am answering this in case anyone comes by the same question.
It does not appear there is any way to do bulk deletion by pattern matching using
mail
. An alternative is to use themutt
mail client, which does have such feature:Thanks to @thrig and @dirkt for suggesting the alternative.