How To Delete All Messages From A Folder In Pine

Posted by Artem Russakovskii on March 23rd, 2008 in Linux

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Pine is a UNIX command line mail application. So how do you delete all messages in a folder?

The combination is

; A A D

If after pressing ; you see

1	[Command ";" not defined for this screen. Use ? for help]

then you don't have a check in the "Enable aggregate command set" settings checkbox. To enable it, go to the main menu (M) -> Setup (S) -> Config (C) and scroll down to "Enable aggregate command set". Then press X (to check it), E (Exit). Now repeat the above.

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Tags: command line, delete, Linux, mail, messages, pine, unix

2 Responses to “How To Delete All Messages From A Folder In Pine”

2 Comments:

Alex says:

July 1, 2009 at 5:37 pm

Thanks man

Saved me to press Delete for ever.

Donated $5.

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Artem Russakovskii says:

July 1, 2009 at 7:48 pm

Thanks Glad I could help.

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