[TriLUG] Mutt???

[Owen Berry]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:50:35PM -0400, Hugh Crissman wrote:
> 
> > Hugh Crissman wrote:
> > 
> > >I use mutt to connect to an IMAP server. In general it is great. Is their 
> > >a way to select a group of messages, say in your "INBOX", and move them to 
> > >a subfolder on the IMAP server? I google this and went through all of the 
> > >man pages and could not find anything about moving messages?
> > > 
> > >
> * Aaron S. Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> [2005-06-17 10:23:56]:
> >
> > It is possible to "tag" message in mutt to accomplish exactly what you 
> > want.  If I remember correctly, you use t to tag a message, T to tag 
> > based on certain properties of like messages (such as a regex or simple 
> > pattern match against sender or subject), and then semi-colon to specify 
> > that the next keypress-action is to take effect against all "tagged" 
> > messages.  See the mutt documentation for further details on tagging, a 
> > very powerful feature.
> > 
> > Aaron S. Joyner
> 
> That helps. I have messed around w/ tag(t) but not tag (T). I will try to use "T" and see what happens. 
> But the next question, after you get them tagged, can you move them? I see a option to copy but not move? 
> Sorry, just trying to save a couple key strokes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hugh

The 's' key will allow you to save to another folder.

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Owen