[MlMt] rule (or some way) to delete all prior messages from same sender as selected message?

[Eric Sharakan]

On 19 Jun 2018, at 9:31, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 13 Jun 2018, at 16:34, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> Like many folks, I receive periodic mails from certain senders 
>> (weekly digest emails, sale info, etc).  Is there a way to set up a 
>> rule or something that, when looking at a message, I can instruct MM 
>> to delete all prior messages from the same sender in the current 
>> mailbox?
>
> That's a very specific feature request :)

I did not intend this to be an actual feature request, but just to ask 
if anyone had already come up with a recipe to accomplish this.

> Usually, I would point to bundle commands to do things like this, but 
> it's not clear how it could be done in this case. I guess a bundle 
> command should be able to tell MailMate to apply a filter to the 
> current mailbox and then delete the resulting messages. I'll give that 
> some thought.
>
> For now, you could, e.g., double-click the sender (or maybe the 
> subject) and then hit ⌘A before hitting delete. Then hit escape to 
> return to the mailbox.

That's pretty much exactly what I do now, except I want to keep the most 
recent message rather than delete them all, so I can't use ⌘A.

Thanks.

-Eric

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