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- From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: need utility to delete VMS NEWMAIL FOLDER messages
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.124704.6052@slcs.slb.com>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 12:47:04 GMT
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- In article <01GNSVDCY45S90R9RA@crl.aecl.ca>, CARLSONK@CRL.AECL.CA ("Ken Carlson, AECL Research, X3664") writes:
- >In a previous article, CC4::ROIHAR wrote:
- >>I need to delete NEWMAIL folder messages which contain a certain
- >>string (i.e. mail from unwanted source or containing certain subject
- >>keywords). Anyone know of a utility that will let me do this???
- >>Please respond directly to roihar@crl.aecl.ca ...
- >
- >You can write DCL .com:
- >******
- >$mail
- >sel/new/sub=what-ever
- >del/all
- >******
- >if what-ever contains spaces then use "text to search for"
-
- Careful here. If there are no messages available by the selection criteria,
- you end up selecting everything in either NEWMAIL or MAIL and the delete /all
- will delete all messages in that folder.
-
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