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With (al)pine in contrast to mutt you at least have filtering rules to move a mail to a folder. I hope that this would be added to meli, too - that's the last thing I would consider missing when reading the docs on the website: https://meli.delivery/

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I'm not sure what you mean by this. Most people who use mutt typically use something like notmuch, mailfilter, procmail or imapfilter to implement rules that automatically move certain mail into certain folders.

For doing a move of multiple messages into a folder on an ad-hoc basis in the mutt UI, you select your messages however you want (eg using a regex over subject or sender or whatever) and use semicolon to modify your move command to mean "move all selected" rather than just "move this message".

Why not use procmail for it?

I'm not the grandparent poster, but I'm not sure if this is what they had in mind by "filtering rules". When I read the comment, I immediately thought of how I use procmail for live sorting of incoming mail, but I also occasionally pull out al(pine) for various manual sorting/rearranging tasks. I've always found its "broaden/narrow selection + zoom" tools to be pretty powerful. (Maybe mutt has tools of similar capability; I don't know.)

Not exactly the same, but in mutt, there is a simple language which you can use to refer to a subset of the messages in your view. E.g. "~U" will match you unread messages, etc.

You can group tag messages on mutt with any pattern you'd like and then move them. Or, you can limit your view to what you want to move, select some and then move them.

There's functionality for that in meli (`select <query>` command) which then can be used with `moveto` command or `delete` etc...

(Γεια σου Θανάση! μάνος από εμπ και meli dev)

I did that, decades ago. Sieve is a very nice upgrade, safer, easier to read/write, and even had a web UI if you want.

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