[MlMt] tags vs keywords mess

[Richard Rettke]

On 24 Oct 2016, at 7:41, Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com  
wrote:

> On 17 Oct 2016, at 18:59, Paula R. T. Coelho wrote:
>
>> i’ve tried to use tags for a while to organize the emails. it turns 
>> out it got way too clumsy and i gave up.
>>
>> Mailbox “Tags exists” is empty now, though i honestly don’t 
>> remember if i properly “untag” the messages or only removed their 
>> mapping from Preferences Pane (likely the last).
>>
>> what bothers me is that the keywords remained in the messages, and i 
>> find no way to remove them. i keep seeing the old unused tags in, 
>> e.g. choosing from the dropdown list in mailbox conditions. how do i 
>> remove the keywords? do i have to map them again to tags, one by one? 
>> any way to “batch remove” keywords?
>
> I'm afraid not. With MailMate, you would need to recreate the tags 
> before you disable them. The latter can be done in one go by selecting 
> all relevant messages, hit t, and finally list all of the tags in the 
> “Tags to be removed” text field.
>

Just an FYI: I have been shopping around for a new email provider and 
gave Fastmail a try. During the import (from Gmail) we ran into a 
problem with too many tags/keywords. Fastmail only allows 100. I do not 
have that many tags but did discover that I have hundreds of what are 
apparently keywords? They look like folder names I has used years ago 
before Mailmate when I was running Thunderbird. I was surprised to see 
them there and have no idea how to get rid of them (or if I even need 
to). It did prevent me from moving to Fastmail though.

__*Richard Rettke*__
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*Non sibi sed patriae*

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