[MlMt] Deleting messages with a substring in the subject

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Wed Apr 16 10:32:23 EDT 2014


On 16 Apr 2014, at 16:27, Kee Hinckley wrote:

> I get mail messages about bugs and code-collabs that have an ID in the 
> subject (e.g. "Review #993122"), but otherwise the subjects are 
> different. I'd love a way to delete them all at once. Does anyone have 
> any ideas on whether that's possible? I'm guessing at the very least 
> it would require creating a special specifier ala the 
> <http://lists.freron.com/mailmate/2014-March/002252.html> one for 
> FogBugz.

Since you only need to delete messages then something more simple is 
probably possible. It sounds like these are some kind of automated 
messages. Have you looked in the headers (⌥⌘U) to see if something 
uniquely identifies them? Perhaps combined with the subject containing 
“Review”.

-- 
Benny


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