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<p dir="auto">On 26 Jul 2025, at 20:05, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 14 Jul 2025, at 1:38, Randall Gellens wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Based on advice from Benny from years ago, some of my older rules use the following sequence of actions to set a gray flag on messages:</p>
<p dir="auto">[Set Tag/Keyword] [Flagged]<br>
[Remove Tag/Keyword] [$MailFlagBit0]<br>
[Set Tag/Keyword] [$MailFlagBit1]<br>
[Set Tag/Keyword] [$MailFlagBit2]</p>
<p dir="auto">I want to duplicate this in another rule just now, using r6272, and in the available values in the pop-up for both Set and Remove Tag/Keyword, I only see $MailFlagBit1 and $MailFlagBit2, not $MailFlagBit0.</p>
<p dir="auto">I chose an available value, quit MailMate, edited Library/Application\ Support/MailMate/Mailboxes.plist to change the value to $MailBit0, and it works as expected.</p>
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<p dir="auto">This would also be the expected behavior. This workaround is fine.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Is $MailFlagBit0 identical to $Flagged and not needed now?</p>
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<p dir="auto">No, it was missing in your popup because MailMate did not find this keyword on any existing messages. MailMate only lists what it can find and then you ran into the problem that you had no way to set a seemingly non-existing IMAP keyword. But you found a workaround and after using it then the missing keyword should appear in the popup.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I use the gray color for suspected spam, and such messages are usually either deleted or have the flag unset, so MM likely won't find messages with this flag set.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Another workaround would be to force MailMate to acknowledge the existence of these bits by explicitly assigning them tag names in the Tags settings pane -- but this would likely be annoying in other parts of the interface (although it would allow using it once to force the IMAP keyword into existence).</p>
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<p dir="auto">To get the gray color I need to set bits 1 and 2 and be sure bit 0 is unset. Is there a way to assign a name to this combination?</p>
<p dir="auto">--Randall</p>
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