[MlMt] Confused about tags

[John Cooper]

>> When I select a group of messages, press t to open the tagging field,
>> and apply the tag "mailmate", nothing is tagged. When I select any 
>> message from the group, it has no tag. Nothing appears in the header, 
>> and nothing appears when I press t.

The problem turned out to be an elementary misunderstanding of the 
interface on my part. When I apply a tag and press return, the tag 
appears outlined in the tag field, and I believed it was applied at that 
point. When I then clicked away from the selection and returned to one 
of the messages I thought I had tagged, I found the tag was not applied.

Instead, of course, you must press return twice to apply a tag—once to 
confirm the selected tag (upon which it becomes outlined) and once to 
apply the changes to the message on the server. I did not intuit this.

Why did I have success tagging individual items and not a multiple 
selection? I'm not sure. I probably blundered into the correct workflow 
without understanding it.

Thanks for your response!

John

On 3 Jan 2014, at 7:54, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

>> When I select a message individually, I can apply the tag and it 
>> shows up later.
>
> What do you mean by “later”? This might be a hint since it should 
> appear immediately.
>
>> But I would like to be able to apply tags in bulk. Is there something 
>> I'm not understanding?
>
> No, I think it should work as you expect. Something is not working 
> correctly.
>
> You can enable the “Raw Flags” column in the messages outline in 
> order to follow changes more closely.