[MlMt] Viewing Tags on different computers

Rob McClure sharkez at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 14:01:32 EST 2013


More info…
The missing tags problem appears to be inconsistent.  I do find some 
tags on older messages, but not all the tags.  It also seems to more of 
an issue (but unfortunately not exclusively) associated with tags that 
are all lower case (vs Capitalized). Does that make any sense?

Rob McClure
sharkez at g

On 31 Dec 2013, at 11:22, Rob McClure wrote:

> Ok - I've added the same tags to the other install and looked at the 
> activity log and I DO see PERMANETFLAGS with my list coming across. 
> And, when I add a new tag to a message, it shows up in the other 
> install.
>
> What is interesting is that the old tags that I have defined are not 
> showing up as linked to the existing email in the new install. In 
> fact, I can add a new instance (of a tag) to a message that has 
> "missing" tags and only the new tag instance appears on the email when 
> displayed on the new install. This means that the first install has 
> two tags on a message, while the new install only has the new one. So 
> there appears to be some sort of temporal issue as to when tags are 
> recognized. Does that make sense? I'd sure like to get all those "old" 
> message tags over to my new (mobile) workstation.
>
> [Interestingly, I asked the support folks at 1&1 if they supported 
> IMAP keywords and they said "not yet", but I think it's still working]
>
> Rob McClure
> sharkez at g
>
> On 31 Dec 2013, at 6:22, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 31 Dec 2013, at 0:58, Rob McClure wrote:
>>
>>> I'm Using 1&1 for my email ISP (IMAP) and when running MailMate on 
>>> different computers I don't see any of the Tags I entered elsewhere. 
>>> Am I doing something wrong
>>
>> Make sure you have defined the same tags on both computers in the 
>> Tags preferences pane.
>>
>>> or is this because 1&1 is not supporting MM tagging?
>>
>> You can check that in the Activity Viewer (⌥⌘0). Open the window, 
>> synchronize the account, and then select one of the connections to 
>> the server to see a detailed log in the lower part of the window. 
>> Look for something like this:
>>
>> 	S: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen 
>> $NotJunk $Junk ... \*)]
>>
>> The important part is the `"\*"` at the end of the line. This is the 
>> server telling the email client that non-standard/listed IMAP 
>> keywords are supported.
>>
>>> Is there something I can check?
>>
>> You can enable the “Raw Flags” column in the messages outline to 
>> better track what happens with the IMAP flags/keywords used for the 
>> tags.
>>
>> There is no workaround for servers which do not support IMAP 
>> keywords. The only major IMAP implementation that I know does not 
>> support IMAP keywords is IMAP for MS Exchange.
>>
>> -- 
>> Benny
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