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I am again deleting old mails. And I have inboxes with like 200 of them, it is hell.

I would like to autodelete mails that contain a date. If there are multiple dates, take the latest one. If that date is older than x days from today, delete the mail.

Is there something like that? Or some regex possible in native filters?

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[–] otl@hachyderm.io 2 points 9 months ago

If you've done any programming, you could hook up a script to fdm (https://github.com/nicm/fdm).

Rough logic, for each message:

* match body with several timestamp regexps
* parse matched messages
* find dates in message body
* parse final match
* discard message if that is date earlier than now - x days

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