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Author/Date Moving email with the keyboard
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03/12/2025 6:13pm
As the drag and drop is currently broken in Linux I've been playing around with moving email with the FolderSelect dialog. So there is new Move/Copy menu items in the context menu of an email. From there it brings up the folder select dialog.

Which has a few new tricks.
- Firstly it focuses the filter edit box by default
- Then as you type is hides non-matching folders
- It also highlights matches in blue
- And finally allows you to select next/prev matches with the up/down arrow keys while still having the focus on the filter editbox.

So moving email to a new folder can be done relatively efficiently with just the keyboard:
- Menu key to bring up the context menu, select 'Move'
- Type a short string to filter where you want to move the email to
- Optionally up/down to select the right match
- Enter to move the mail to the currently folder

It's almost as fast as dnd?!
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