mark mails: shift-t, ~d [MIN]-[MAX] messages with ``date-sent''in a Date range - no example!

#1 09-14-2008, 11:29 AM

Unfortunately mutt help does not offer examples! Mutt seems to rest a
mailer for family-less freaks ...

Can somebody here tell me an example of a regular expression:
~d [MIN]-[MAX] messages with ``date-sent'' in a Date range ?

I want to mark mail from ... to to move some mails to a archive file.

thx
Marc

#2 09-14-2008, 01:15 PM

On 14.09.2008 Marc Bauer <marc@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

> Unfortunately mutt help does not offer examples! Mutt seems to rest a
> mailer for family-less freaks ...
>
> Can somebody here tell me an example of a regular expression:
> ~d [MIN]-[MAX] messages with ``date-sent'' in a Date range ?
>
> I want to mark mail from ... to to move some mails to a archive file.

Hello Marc,

for example you want to tag the messages from 01.03 to 01.05 in a
mailbox, you must make it like this:

T
~d 01/03 - 01/05
;<command for the tagged messages>

I don't know how to explain it a better way.

Hth Michael

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#3 09-15-2008, 05:54 PM

Michael Wagner schrieb:

> T
> ~d 01/03 - 01/05
> ;<command for the tagged messages>
>
> I don't know how to explain it a better way.
>
> Hth Michael
>
thx for your help! But your example doesn't work eiher! delete 2 blancs:
I tried so some time. This works:
~d 08/08-08/09 # from 8th of august to 8th of september.
I ask me if all other users know that the date is defined as: dd/mm!
Why are there no examples in mutt help?

And it is even possible to add the year: ~d 08/08/2007-08/09/2008
# from 8th of august 2007 to 8th of september 2008

yeahhh!!
Marc

#4 09-16-2008, 04:46 PM

On 15.09.2008 Marc Bauer <marc@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> Michael Wagner schrieb:
>
>> T
>> ~d 01/03 - 01/05
>> ;<command for the tagged messages>
>>
> thx for your help! But your example doesn't work eiher! delete 2 blancs:
> I tried so some time. This works:
> ~d 08/08-08/09 # from 8th of august to 8th of september.
> I ask me if all other users know that the date is defined as: dd/mm!

Hello Marc,

sorry for this mistake. I don't know why I put the spaces in my example
above. It was a slip of the pen ;-)

With best regards
Michael

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#5 09-16-2008, 07:50 PM

* Marc Bauer, 2008-09-15 21:54 UTC:
> I ask me if all other users know that the date is defined as: dd/mm!
> Why are there no examples in mutt help?

See section "2.4. Searching by Date".

Eike

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