[Techtalk] Tagging date+thread in mutt

Magni Onsoien magnio+lc-techtalk at pvv.ntnu.no
Tue Nov 6 13:00:10 EST 2001


Telsa Gwynne:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:56:51AM +0100 or thereabouts, Magni Onsoien wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Is it possible in mutt to tag all messages within a date range (yes)
> > PLUS all the messages in threads included in the date range (no matter
> > what date range these messages are wthin), preferably in one operation?
> 
> I am having enough trouble figuring out the syntax for everything within
> a range.

:)

> > (Personally I prefer to have all messages from a month in one folder, but
> 
> Exactly what I was trying to do last week. Tag everything from October.
> I could not get the pattern thing from the manual to work. (In section
> 4.2: " ~d [MIN]-[MAX]  messages with `date-sent'' in a Date range")
> Re-reading now, I think I see what I missed, of course, but I shall
> send this just in case I'm wrong :)

Hm, that worked here. T ~d 1/10-30/10 RET
Or T ~d -31/10 for anything before Oct, 31. (And I guess  T ~d 1/10- for
anything after Oct, 1.)

> > a colleague prefers to have the complete thread there as well, including
> > those messages from other months.
> 
> I was thinking it would have to be a macro, but I can't find anything
> useful. All I can think of is something horrible like "tag everything
> from the month and copy them somewhere, find the message-ids and then
> hunt for everything with those in the references". Uurgh.

That sounds just a bit too complicated/resource consuming :)



Magni :)
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