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<p dir="auto">On 7 Jun 2024, at 18:06, aisrael wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">My understanding, as a non expert in mail clients’ subtleties, is that it is impossible to transfer tags (or smart mailboxes based on tags) from Mailmate to another client (except for a few IMAP keywords). Is it absolutely impossible, or is there a workaround?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Scott already gave a thorough answer. I'll just add some random thoughts:</p>
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<li>Not all servers support IMAP keywords, in particular, Office365/Exchange. In those cases, MailMate will quietly (which is kind of bad) make them local-only.</li>
<li>Some server have a limit on the number of IMAP keywords which results in various silent errors (like tags getting cleared shortly after being set).</li>
<li>Thunderbird has, I think, 5 custom IMAP keywords. Tags can be created in MailMate which map to those keywords and then they should work nicely together.</li>
<li>Colored flags in Apple Mail also uses IMAP keywords. MailMate mirrors this behavior.</li>
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<p dir="auto">--<br>
Benny</p>
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