[MlMt] Tags not stored with IMAP?

Ralph Alvy ralph at ralphalvy.com
Tue May 30 14:33:31 EDT 2017


I just copied the Tags.plist from one machine to the other and now it's 
fine. Is that only way to do this? Sounds like Tags are not 
synchronized.

Perhaps one day MailMate will allow for Dropbox sync with certain 
settings, like Tag Preferences.

On 30 May 2017, at 11:11, Ralph Alvy wrote:

> I'm told my server supports IMAP Keywords. Until this morning, I 
> didn't use any MailMate Tags. This morning, on one machine, I tagged a 
> number of messages with various tags in MailMate. On that machine I 
> notice that all those tags are mapped with IMAP keywords in the Tags 
> Preferences window.
>
> Now I go to my second machine and notice no tags at all in the Tags 
> Preferences window. Do I have to manually enter each tag in that 
> window? I thought if my server supports IMAP Keywords, I would see 
> that list in the Tags Preferences window populated, and all my tagged 
> messages showing up as tagged.
>
> On 3 Feb 2017, at 2:17, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
>
>> On 2 Feb 2017, at 18:30, John Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> I'm surprised to find that the tags I apply on my main computer 
>>> aren't attached to the same messages on my secondary computer; they 
>>> appear to be machine-specific. I take it that tags aren't supported 
>>> by the IMAP standard?
>>
>> They are stored on the server, at least on the servers I'm using. But 
>> remember that you have to "connect" the "Display Name"/Icon with the 
>> IMAP Keyword on each computer (the "Tags" preference pane).
>>
>> - jem
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