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When an e-mail thread lasts for a while, the habit of quoting all previous e-mails is making the size of the thread grow like the square of the number of messages. I.e., in a conversation where each answer is a 14-verse sonnet, after N exchanges, each message is 14N lines, and the mailbox hoding them is 7N(N+1) lines. What's more, we've got 14(N³/6-N/6) times the symbol ">" in the beginning of quoted lines.
Is there an a way to automatically reduce to one (or a few) the number of messages that are quoted when replying with mutt ?