[MlMt] Newbie Question - Can you TAG an outgoing e-mail ....

[Bill Cole]

On 10 May 2020, at 11:29, Greg Henderson wrote:

>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Enjoying ( well - sort of ) learning the power of the program ….   
>> Question —can I TAG an outgoing e-mail so I can track the ‘back & 
>> forth’ thread of a specific problem in a smart folder … rather 
>> than TAG the reply ??

No. Tags are implemented via IMAP flags, which are not part of a message 
proper. There's no standard for transmitting them inside a message sent 
via SMTP.

>> I have tried 2 examples - but neither show up AFTER the e-mail is 
>> sent … am I doing something wrong ?   I can tag e-mails after they 
>> are sent and they show up in the proper smart folder … I just 
>> thought this would be an easier way to handle ….
>>
>> I did disclose I was a newbie …additional question - why does Mail 
>> & MailMate take so long to show the sent mail in my sent folder ??  
>> Approx 3-5 minutes before it shows back in their - often I like to 
>> take that sent and further add something to additional people. Is 
>> there an ISP setting or ??

This sounds like a problem with your mail server. MailMate does not move 
a message from Drafts into Sent until it has been successfully sent. 
It's not normal for that to take minutes, but it's also not unheard of 
for mail servers to impose artificial slow-downs to combat abuse and 
file to exempt trusted senders. Or to simply be massively overloaded and 
take minutes to process submitted mail.

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