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Cleaning out mail with mutt

How to automatically mark stale threads for deletion.

I’ve moved back to mutt after being exiled to kmail, evolution, thunderbird and even gnus for the longest time. The only reason I left mutt in the first place was that I’d moved from POP to IMAP and mutt’s IMAP support was less than stellar at the time. That seems to have improved a lot since then and I’ve found out about some IMAP <-> maildir syncing programs. After some testing offlineimap came out as my winner. I haven’t bother to configure mutt to use IMAP. Using local maildirs instead I circumvent the entire IMAP-caching issue. Plus I have access to my mail when offline.

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