text: ## Delete all message older than a given date in a pop account  
  Originally published: 2009-10-05 12:56:13  
  Last updated: 2009-10-05 12:56:13  
  Author: Benjamin Sergeant  
    
  I was using the keep option in fetchmail, so I had a huge number of emails that seems to slow down mails retrieval / pop connection. I wanted a way to 