Turnpike (Offline) Tag Manipulation

The procedures described here were tested using V4.01, and checked in V5.01 of Turnpike, they are relatively simplistic in that I have only one 'Seat', and no 'Workgroups' are involved.

Turnpike Offline's Help uses the term "Mail list" (not to be confused with a "Mailing list") to describe the view of a batch of messages with a particular tag or set of tags (Tag-List), messages pulled from the address book (Address-Message-List), the contents of a Mailbox (Mailbox), the Out tray (Out-tray), or even the Mailroom (Mailroom).
With any particular Mail list in focus, the tag(s) of any message can be seen by "right-clicking" on the message and selecting "Properties" from the drop down menu.

There are numerous pages devoted to "tags" in the Turnpike Offline Help file. There is also a section in the Tutorial which covers other aspects of tagging that do not appear to be mentioned in Help.

This paragraph may be rubbish, but is included as the observations made might have some semblance of reality.
As far as I can tell, tag names are stored internally and numbered, any new tag created being given the next number in sequence. When a tag is deleted, its number is not used again - any further new tags being 'tagged' onto the end of the hidden numerical list. Should this be the case, it would make sense (to byte misers) not to delete redundant tags, but to re-use them by editing to the new name rather than letting the internal tag storage list grow ad infinitum.

Tags may be manually added or removed to/from messages by means of the Tags... button that is visible at the bottom of the open message. For messages in the Out tray, going via "Inspect" on the right-click drop-down menu will enable the message tags to be modified without affecting the time-stamps.
Tags may also be automatically added to emails by configuring mailboxes - any emails received or originated via that mailbox will then be tagged appropriately.
Any "posts" to a newsgroup will have that newsgroup tag added (or newsgroups if cross-posted) when the article is "posted".

The terms Tag-List, Mailroom, Mailbox, Out-tray, and Address-Message-List are used below to describe the differing lists that can be viewed as Mail lists.

At the risk of being obvious, the Mailroom holds the master list of all messages, emails sent/received and newsgroup articles posted by the user. As far as I can tell, the only messages that are not seen in the Mailroom are those which are on the Turnpike Desktop as individual messages and have not yet been 'posted' (and obviously, those in the Waste basket).
The various 'Lists' (Tag-List, Out-tray, Address-Message-List, and Mailbox) are effectively selective views of the Mailroom list.

Deleting any message from one of these selective views, or dragging-&-dropping it onto the Turnpike Waste basket deletes the message, not only from that view, but also from the Mailroom. In other words, it's gone, unless rescued from the Waste basket.

Dragging or Control-dragging a message from the Turnpike Waste basket to a Tag-List does not add or remove any tags (hence that message may not appear in the Tag-List), but the message is added to the Mailroom list.

Most of the methods mentioned here are already documented in the Help file, but are mentioned again to show the overall picture.
The application of tags when importing mail can be found in a couple of notes in the Help file, Help/Index/Import/Importing mail and news.

Manipulating Message Tags

In the following actions, Control-drag means click & drag while holding down the 'Control key'.
Note: Messages (only incoming are allowed) are usually dropped onto a Mailbox to utilize the Sender:, From:, Reply-To: headers, and Sig-file properties of that Mailbox for a reply. The dropped messages do not take on the tags of that Mailbox, nor do any replies to those messages.

• Add New Tags to Existing Tags
  
  
  • Drag from Mailroom to Tag-List(new tags).
    
    
  • Drag from Mailbox to Tag-List(new tags).
    (Note: This action removes the message from the Mailbox view.)
    
    
  • Drag from Out-tray to Tag-List(new tags).
    (Note: This removes the message from the Out tray, and the left-arrow symbol from the Mailroom view of that message. Posting this "new" message generates new time-stamps but gives the option of deleting the original.)
    
    
  • Drag from Address-Message-List to Tag-List(new tags).
    
    
  • Control-drag from Tag-List(any) to Tag-List(new tags).
    
    
• Remove Old Tags and Add New Tags
  
  
  • Drag from Tag-List(old tags) to Tag-List(new tags).
    (Note: The tags specified in setting up Tag-List(old tags) will be removed, the tags specified in setting up Tag-List(new tags) will be added. Any other tags that any of the messages might have are preserved with those messages.)
    
    
• Remove Some/All Existing Tags
  
  First set up a Tag-List, specifying the tags that need to be removed.
  
  
  • Drag/Control-drag from Tag-List(old tags) to Mailroom
    
    
  • Drag from Tag-List(old tags) to Mailbox
    
    
• Actions that Preserve Existing Tags
  
  
  • Drag from Mailbox to Mailbox
    
    
  • Drag from Address-Message-List to Mailbox
    
    
  • Drag from Mailroom to Mailbox
    
    
  • Control-drag from Tag-List(any) to Mailbox
    
    
  • Drag from Tag-List(any) to Turnpike Desktop
    
    
  • Drag from Waste basket to Turnpike Desktop
    
    
  • Drag from Waste basket to Tag-List(any)
    (Note: These messages disappear from the Waste basket, do not appear in that Tag-List (unless all the Tag-List(tags) correspond with any message tags), but they do turn up in the Mailroom list complete with existing tags.)
    
    

Selecting Messages from a Mail list

• Mouse Selection
  
  
  • Single message - point & click with mouse.
    
    
  • Contiguous group - point & click to highlight the first message of the desired selection, then hold Shift and click on the last message of the group required.
    
    
  • Non-contiguous group - point & click to highlight the first message of the desired selection, then hold Control and click on each of the other messages required.
    
    
  
  
• Keyboard Selection
  In spite of the fact that Drag-and-Drop is somewhat difficult to implement without a mouse, it is sometimes quicker to use keyboard selection for groups of messages.
  
  
  • Single message - Use the cursor up/down keys until the required message is highlighted.
    
    
  • Contiguous group - Use the cursor up/down keys until the first message of the desired selection is highlighted, then, holding the Shift key down, use the cursor up/down keys until the required number of messages are selected.
    If the desired group extends from the highlighted message to either the top or bottom of the list on view, then Shift plus Home will mark all to the top, Shift plus End will mark all to the bottom.