[MlMt] Test version available: Support for tags using IMAP keywords

[Thomas Eckhold]

On 14 Dec 2012, at 9:37, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 14 Dec 2012, at 9:29, Thomas Eckhold wrote:
>
>> The idea is to store all messages related to one client in one 
>> mailbox but to distinguish the messages by tags. That will allow me 
>> to use smart mailboxes to distinguish messages by projects, task or 
>> what ever using tags. I hope at some indefinite future date Benny 
>> will implement a filter function that would allow me to file messages 
>> by tags. In addition I hope that my database to store old messages 
>> (EagleFiler) will be able to read these tags so that I could search 
>> them inside my database. Does that make sense?
>
> I believe this would be possible if MailMate supported OpenMeta (which 
> is supported by EagleFiler). Unfortunately I'm not so sure about the 
> future of OpenMeta (because of the sandboxing rules of the Mac App 
> Store). But I haven't read up on the details yet — I don't even know 
> how much work OpenMeta support would require.

Maybe it could be done the other way around and Michael could implement 
in EagleFiler the function to read IMAP keywords. I guess they are 
stored "inside" the messages. Would that be possible at all?

Thomas