[ILUG] Moving messages to other mailboxes in Mutt

[Lars Hecking]

Niall writes:
> I've been using Mutt for a while now, having been badgered into it by Kate's
> rantings - I just felt so inadequate continuing to use Pine. In fairness,

 "inadequate" is the adequate word for pine ...

> it's good, though I haven't yet upgraded to 1.2. I'm now trying to organise
> a stack of mail, and I cannot see how to move a message or a group of tagged
> messages from the mailbox I'm currently viewing to some other. There's a
> copy-message command, bound to C by default, but there doesn't seem to be a
> move-message command and I have RTFM and I even GTFM in case I missed
> something. It seems silly to have to copy and then delete when I simply want
> to move.

 save-message is bound to s, and it marks messages as deleted.

 To tag the messages to move, type ; s, and you'll see

 Save tagged to mailbox ('?' for list): =mboxname

 where mboxname is determined by mutt based on the tagged messages.
 Edit this if necessary, press return, and mutt appends the tagged
 messages to =mboxname (or the folder specified by you) and deletes
 them in the current folder.

 Both = and + are shortcuts to your ``$folder'' directory. Unset,
 it normally defaults to ~/Mail (elm style).

 HTH. HAND.