Delete messages containing a keyword in mutt

Bulk operations in mutt, a console based email client, are easy. Here’s how to delete messages containing the keyword ‘Newsletter’. >

T
>
> Newsletter
>
> ;
>
> d
>
> $

T – asks which messages you want to tag and you reply with ‘Newsletter’.

; – asks which action you want to run on the tagged messages.

d – tells that the action you want is delete.

$ – synchronizes the view with the underlying persistence layer.