[MlMt] tags associated with messages

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-12-02 at 13:36:41 UTC-0500 (Mon, 2 Dec 2024 18:36:41 +0000)
Henry Seiden <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> After comparing a tagged email on another machine running the same 
> version, I found that the tag was NOT visible when applied to an 
> incoming message there. Therefore it is only applied only to the 
> locally stored incoming message filed at the local user.

This can vary based on what sort of server you are using. If you use a 
standard IMAP server that properly supports IMAP keywords, MM "tags" are 
just MailMate's names for the IMAP keywords your server knows about.

> OTOH if your outgoing message has a tag applied, you could check to 
> see if that tag gets transferred to the message headers and somehow 
> would be decoded by MM at other machines.

Tags are not part of a message. They are metadata maintained by the IMAP 
server.  If the server doesn't support arbitrary user-defined keywords, 
any tags you create with MM are entirely local to MM.

> So, ig your question is whether a tag is attached to outgoing messages 
> that might be a different scenario.

Tags are not any part of any message on an IMAP server, because it is an 
IMAP axiom is that messages are immutable.

> You would likely have to move the massages themselves. There is np 
> instruction that I could find about migrating tagged messages or 
> databases containing header information when moving to a new machine.

If your IMAP server doesn't support arbitrary user-defined IMAP 
keywords, there's no documented way to migrate the tags of MM messages 
(which are only local in that case) to a new client machine.


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