Possible to select all messages in search result?

[redhat]

I'm finally taking some time this weekend to organize my mailbox. I have thousands of messages and want to tag some, move others to new folders and delete a whole bunch of old stuff.

Advanced search works great to isolate the different messages, but I realized that I can't select the whole group resulting from a search. Is that possible?

I searched this forum and found a thread from 2006 asking this same question, but the answer was negative at that time. Has there been a fix since then?

[jholder]

We have added a checked box selection method in 5.0, but I don't think that will cover what you need. Search the bugzilla for an enhancement on this and add your vote to it.

[smcgrath1111]

For reference, it's Bug #4175

Workaround:

Connect using an IMAP client (such as Thunderbird), subscribe the appropriate folders, and move the messages that way.