* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-09 14:19]:
> I am having a problem using patterns with mail on an IMAP server.
hmm? are there any special patterns for use with IMAP servers?
> I believe the problem is that mutt does not fetch the headers from
> the IMAP server and thus is not able to match patterns against
> them. Here is what I am trying to do. I want to move all my mail
> from the linux kernel mailing list, so I run the mutt macro:
>
> T~elinux-kernel
>
> However, instead of tagging all the mail from the linux-kernel
> mailing list, it only tags the messages I have already read.
try this pattern instead then:
T ~C linux-kernel
> I tried to work around this by copying
> all my mail to a dummy folder:
>
> T~A;Cxyz
>
> and while this does dump it into a file called xyz,
> it does not seem to cause mutt to read the headers,
> so this workaround didnt work.
well, when you have copied the messages into a *local* folder
then you *should* get the headers with the messages, right?
ps: please do *not* use the address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
but "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - thankyou.
Sven
