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Re: clearing flags



Christian,

Thank you, I was trying to do something more like ~A (select all)
and then W O, but that clearly wasn't working.

Your solution worked brilliantly, thank you.

T (tag) .
;W O (act on all tagged ?)
^T . (untag, matching any).

                                                thank you,

                                                Brian

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:01:26PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi Brian!
> 
> On Tue, 27 May 2008, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ok, I did something very stupid, I accidently deleted all
> > of the mail in my mailbox. Well, being responsible for backups
> > I was able to retrieve the mail, put it back into my mailbox
> > and rebuild the imap message index.
> > 
> > However, the messages all show as "old", the "O" flag being set.
> > 
> > I know there is a simple one line command to clear the flag from
> > all of the messages, but I've spent a lot of time on this and have
> > yet to get the syntax correct.
> > 
> > If someone would be kind enough to provide the command I'd be greatfull.
> 
> Tag all messages and remove marks:
> T .
> ;W O
> 
> regards,
> Christian
> -- 
> :wq!
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