From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: manish@gslab.com (Manish Sapariya)
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:45:09 +0530
Subject: [sup-talk] How to search for and mass tag thousands of emails?
In-Reply-To: <15885391.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <15885391.post@talk.nabble.com>
Message-ID: <1204874020-sup-2295@alioth.gs-lab.com>

I did it by writing before-add-message.rb hook and resyncing all
messages. The before-add-message hook allows you to add delete
labels before it indexes the message.

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Manish

Excerpts from rodneyk's message of Fri Mar 07 04:51:18 +0530 2008:
> 
> Hi,
> I just started using sup, after years of muttng I must say I like it a lot!
> I have a giant inbox mbox with thousands of emails which I want to
> starting using in sup. I can easily search and tag to categorize them all,
> however, I can only tag the current screen full of search results. Is there
> a way to tag all the search results, and not just the results on screen?
> 
> Being able to import existing mail and quickly organize is probably
> something
> most new users will need to do. I also checked out sup from the git repo,
> and can run
> devel/console, so if this mass tagging can only be done manually, I can do
> it, as I'm
> pretty proficient with ruby.
> 
> --Rodney

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