[MlMt] Gmail stars vs flags

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 28 Nov 2017, at 16:23, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> Shoddy IMAP servers might be the issue indeed but I am sure I am not 
> the only one facing this and if MM could support tags reliably across 
> the spectrum of servers (using IMAP or not), it would surely be a big 
> plus.

Certainly, but I already do many things to make MailMate work with all 
kinds of shoddy IMAP servers. I have to draw the line somewhere and for 
me it's adding (complex and inefficient) workarounds for missing server 
features. I already work around missing UIDPLUS support (an old IMAP 
extension for offline email clients) and this was a bit of a nightmare 
to implement. Also, such a workaround would never have the potential of 
working with any other email clients.

> Two of my problematic services are running on Exchange. Another is 
> using office365.com. Yet another is running CommuniGate Pro which 
> supports the IMAP tags but they decided to allow only a subset of 
> standard tags (I am arguing with them but no luck so far — large 
> institutions have their own ideas what should be).

Exchange is unfortunately one of very few IMAP servers not supporting 
IMAP keywords.

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Benny
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