[ILUG] Mutt Magic Please

[Andrew McCarthy]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:33:11PM +0000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> Any other Mutt users in Ilug? Good.
> 
> I want to extract from a (spam) folder all spam addressed to any
> mailing list I am on. Just viewing today's entries, they look like 
> 
> 52 L Mär 04 To ilug at linux.i ( 132) [ILUG] Financial Freedom Has Arrived!
>  
> whereas the normal <To: me at myisp> don't have the 'L' designating a
> registered mailing list, line this entry
> 
> 8    Nov 09 Cornelius Atkin ( 145) You want to earn much more money?
> 
> The figures in the middle in brackets being the length of the
> message. Now this could be done by 10 or so lines in .procmailrc
> to sort them, but if mutt is as clever as every user tells me,
> there must be a neat way. I just want to delete those entries, or
> else separate them into a separate folder. 

To do it manually, use the <delete-pattern> key, D, and specify ~l as
the pattern. This will mark all messages addressed to known lists for
deletion. If this is something you *always* do, then you could specify a
folder-hook in your .muttrc. Supposing your folder is =spam you'd want:
	folder-hook =spam 'push <delete-pattern>~l<enter>'
This would execute every time you change into the =spam folder.

Andrew