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From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] How to search for and mass tag thousands of emails?
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:52:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204904692-sup-7926@south> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15885391.post@talk.nabble.com>

Reformatted excerpts from rodneyk's message of 2008-03-06:
> 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?

You could do it through the GUI, but that probably won't scale well.
A better approach is to use the before-add-hook as Manish said, or to
use the development console to modify the index directly.

Feed devel/console.sh something like (untested):

  Index.index.search_each("potato") do |id, score|
    m = Index.build_message(id)
    puts "[#{id}] [#{m.from}] [#{m.subj}]"
    m.add_label :potato
    m.save! Index
  end

But there's not really much of a point to labeling the results of a
(simple) search. Labels are good for things that are hard to search for;
for everything else, just trust in the search!

> Being able to import existing mail and quickly organize is probably
> something most new users will need to do.

Sup supports auto-labeling folders out of the box, which I think is the
most common transition case.

> 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.

The big advantaage of the git repo (the next branch, at least) right now
is that adding labels to a message is much faster.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-07 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06 23:21 rodneyk
2008-03-07  7:15 ` Manish Sapariya
2008-03-07 15:52 ` William Morgan [this message]

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