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Re: [newbie?] failure copying messages



* Niels Aan de Brugh <debrugh@xxxxxx> [2004-11-17 11:14 +0100]:
> 
> When I try to copy a message from my spool file (/var/mail/debrugh) or
> mbox (~/Mail/mbox) to another mbox (e.g. ~/Mail/mutt) most messages are
> not appended, but some are. Like when I try to move all email from this
> mailing list (the only one I'm subscribed to here at work) I do: T ~l C
> =mutt. Then I look into =mutt, and only one or two messages are
> actually appended (I also checked the file with vi, they're really not
> there). Last time, mutt only copied the message from Sören Edzen,
> message ID <20041116213423.GA15251@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

If you're going to perform any action on a number of tagged messages, you
need to enter the <tag-prefix> command (bound to ';' by default). Or you
could set auto_tag in your muttrc to make mutt perform the way you're
expecting it to.
-- 
Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn

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