Re: select articles by field

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Tibor Simko <tibor.simko@cern.ch> writes:

> >>>>> "FP" == Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ese-metz.fr> writes:
> 
>     FP> is it possible to mark all articles in a group that have been
>     FP> sent To: somebody ?  So that I can move them somewhere else.
> 
> You should setup `gnus-extra-headers', etc first [1].  Then, in the
> Summary buffer, do `/ x To RET somebody RET' to display only the
> messages sent to "somebody".  Then, mark them as usual with `M P a'.
> 
> -TS
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  You may want to look at `To From Newsgroups' section of the
>      manual.

If you don't want  to mess with the new `gnus-extra-headers' functionality,
it can be done using the `&' command:

Press &  then when prompted, type  Body  (<=note capital B)
When prompted for regexp, type ^To:.*persons-name<RET>  (or some more
restrictive RE)

When prompted for a command, type #... Gnus will take off at a
blistering pace (unless on-line... then read "snails pace") to search
each message body for that string, putting a 'process' (#) mark on its
finds.

Use those process marks to continue moving/copying  or press `/ n' to
limit view to the finds ...maybe to make sure your regexp did what you
expected.