Deleting old maildir messages, is what I'm doing OK?

[Felix Finch]

On 20210215, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>You could write a script, I guess, something like:
>
>cd $header_cache_dir
>rm -f *
>
>cd $mutt_folder_dir
>for mb in *; do
>  mutt -e 'set quit=yes; push "<quit>"' -f $mb
>done

How well would that play with existing mutt sessions?  I run several mutts inside tmux (local mail, work IMAP mail, etc), and sessions will run for weeks.

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