cleanup old mails in maildir mailbox

If we want to selectively delete messages from a maildir format mail account the following python script comes handy

An example usage i had for deleting messages older than 7 days in the Spam folder is

dir="/the/path/to/my/maildir" cleanup-maildir --maildir-root=$dir --age=7 delete 'Spam'

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