[ILUG] Moving messages to other mailboxes in Mutt

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:37:05PM +0100, Lars Hecking mentioned:
> 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


 Er, just to clarify - to tag something, use 't'. To tag with a regexp
(wierd regexp), use 'T'.

 So, to tag anything from me, use:

 T~fjplooney<enter>

 to save it to a folder "kate", use:

 ;skate<enter>

 To tag anything containing "samba", use:

 T~bsamba<enter>

 etc.

Kate

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