clearing flags on all mails in a mailbox?

[Marty Buchaus]

Default mapping woudl be

Tag the messages you want to work on.

then hit ;  to act on all tagged messages

then W  you should see  Clear flag? (D/N/O/r/*/!):


if you hit w it would be the reverse  (set flag)

Marty

On 01/21/20 11:14 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> [01-21-20 11:09]:
>> * Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> [01-21-20 10:59]:
>>> I've got a mailbox with quite a few msgs in it, some I've never read but
>>> don't want to delete. All those now  have a status flag of "O", so if I
>>> enter that mailbox when there are no "N" messages in it, mutt goes to the
>>> first "O" mail.
>>> One way I can think of to solve this is to clear all the flags, since in
>>> this case I don't care aobut the flags value.
>>> It looks as if Mutt has facilities that could be used for that, but I
>>> haven't figured out how to apply them.
>>> Can someone show me how to do that?
>>> Thanks in advance.
>> tag all of the "O" flagged msgs
>> "T" will tag a pattern, invoke in directory view, capitol T
>> pattern would be: ~O
>> invoke action "W" on tagged, :W
>> "W" clears flag
>> issue clear-flag for the tagged msgs
> two lines beginning with "invoke action" s/b belowe "issue clear-flag" ...
> clear as muddd  :)

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