Batch tagging - add id_list as tag possible?

[David Bremner]

Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> writes:

> On Saturday, March 2, 2013, David Bremner wrote:

>> > It would be great if I could have
>> > +%id_list
>> >
>> > And it would automatically tag my mails with the list I'd?
>>
>> It should be possible to script that, using e.g. formail to extract the
>> list id.
>
> But this would be done outside the batch tagging - correct?
>

Yes

> I think tagging based on a header would be a powerful and useful feature,
> especially for tagging of lists.

I don't know about your use case, but I think for most people being able
to search on more headers (including e.g. List-Id) would be convenient 
replacement for such "autotagging". This is something that many people
have requested/talked-about, but so far nobody has done the work.

d