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From the mutt manual:

Once you have tagged the desired messages, you can use the tag-prefix operator, which is the ; (semicolon) key by default. When the tag-prefix operator is used, the next operation will be applied to all tagged messages if that operation can be used in that manner.

But it seems that I can only execute commands that are already bound to a specific keyboard shortcut. For example I can use ;d to delete all selected messages.

What if I want to apply an "unbound" command (such as purge-message)?

I have also tried using something based on :exec tag-prefix or :push tag-prefix without success.

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My copy of mutt doesn't have a purge-message function, none of the unbound index functions look useful to use on tagged messages. But, for testing I removed the binding for the flag-message function.

With that done, either of the following commands worked for me.

:exec tag-prefix flag-message
:push <tag-prefix><flag-message>

My version is reported as Mutt 1.5.21 (2011-07-01)

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  • Thanks a lot! I was doing something wrong with spaces and angle brackets in the exec and push commands. Btw. the purge-message is related to the "trash folder patch".
    – mrucci
    Dec 2, 2012 at 8:43

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