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Re: problem with toggling mails in IMAP boxes



* Jan Lausch <Jan.Lausch@xxxxxx> [060927 14:24]:
> Hi there,
> 
> I hope someone can help with a rather strange problem with 1.5.11.
> 
> I need to copy some thousand mails between two IMAP Servers to only one of 
> which I have shell access. I figured, the best way would be to use mutt and 
> <s>ave the messages into the box on the 2nd server.
> 
> So I have mutt use both IMAP boxes. works fine.
> Now I <t>oggle or <T>oggle a bunch of messages. They are correctly marked by 
> an *. 
> But when I <s>ave into the 2nd box now, not all them are being saved and 
> marked as 'deleted', but only a single one: only the one on the line where 
> the cursor is.
> I have tried different commands, they are always only exercised at one of the 
> messages (the one marked by the cursor), the fact that I toggled more than 
> one is simply being ignored.
> 
> They are still marked by the '*' after the action and nothing happened to 
> them.
> 
> I remember having used this before (not on IMAP boxes, but on classic local 
> mail storage) some years ago where it worked well. Also the documentation 
> indicates to me that this behavior is not supposed to be that way.
> 
> Is this perhaps a bug in the IMAP handling? 

You mean <tag> not <toggle>

you just need to press ; before save to make it tag-save rather than
save just the default message

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