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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">On 23 Nov 2017, at 0:24, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">On 22 Nov 2017, at 12:22 (-0500), Robert Brenstein wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">I hope that when MM starts properly syncing its setting, that can be followed by syncing flags and tags directly. I am using like 6 different mail servers and only 1 seems to sync them, which translates into 1 account of like 12 for me.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Flags and tags are implemented in MM using IMAP's flags feature, so a shoddy IMAP server that does not support that feature requires that MM store any flags in the local cache for each message. This could be a HUGE sync project across clients, complicated by the fact that messages in the local cache may not be numbered identically on 2 different clients. It's not an impossible problem, but it's a very big task for first sync if you have a lot of messages and will always be slow. It's the price of 3rd-rate IMAP servers...</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Shoddy IMAP servers might be the issue indeed but I am sure I am not the only one facing this and if MM could support tags reliably across the spectrum of servers (using IMAP or not), it would surely be a big plus. </p>
<p dir="auto">Two of my problematic services are running on Exchange. Another is using office365.com. Yet another is running CommuniGate Pro which supports the IMAP tags but they decided to allow only a subset of standard tags (I am arguing with them but no luck so far — large institutions have their own ideas what should be).</p>
<p dir="auto">Robert</p>
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