2016-11-26 Mutt

I have some mail accounts for my machines that receive mail from the Internet, but almost all of it is spam. When I tried to forward it to my Gmail account, Google started rejecting it, because it was so much spam. I have since installed *Spam Assassin*, but I still want to filter the stuff locally. And I’m running into usability issues with `mail`. Apparently I can only delete messages based on their number and I haven’t seen a good way to navigate the mess.

A while ago I installed `mutt` to give it a try, and now it’s several weeks later and I don’t remember what I did. This blog post is going to be the note to myself I wish I had written the first time around.

• `/` – search (e.g. for “root”)
• `D` – delete messages by pattern (e.g. for “.” when you’re done and ready to delete all the spam)

Or:

• `T` – tag messages by pattern
• `;` – tag prefix
• `d` – delete message

Good patterns:

• parcel|shipment|invoice|statement|suspended|support|receipt|document|scan|order|attention|generika|insurance|china|suspicious|

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