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Tagging and Flags

To operate on many messages at a time you need to tag them first, then choose your command. Use the `t' key to tag messages. It's a toggle, so hit `t' again to untag them. Once you've selected the messages you'd like to operate on, preface your command with a semicolon to indicate the command should be applied to all tagged messages. For example, the command `;s=Nicaragua' will save all tagged messages to the mail folder by the name of `Nicaragua' and `;d' will delete them.

You can tag messages individually if you like, but it's faster to use a pattern to select them. Shift-T tags messages that match a pattern, and control-T untags messages that match a pattern. Escape-T will tag a whole thread, if you've chosen to display your messages based on threads. Once you've tagged a group of messages, you can do anything you want to them. For example, you can even tag several messages and hit `r' for reply and mutt will combine the text of all those messages into a single message and, once you've composed your message text, send it to the authors of each of those messages. This is useful if you correspond with a person who sends you 6 separate emails about 6 separate topics.


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Randall Wood 2009-12-02