[TriLUG] Mutt???

[Hugh Crissman]

* Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> [2005-06-17 14:00:12]:

> 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.
> 
> --
> Owen
> -- 
> 

Thanks guys I got it. I was not using the semi-colon to tell mutt to execute the next command on the 
group of tagged messages. Thanks for your help.

Hugh