[MlMt] tags associated with messages

[Jeff Bullard]

This is a great mailing list.  I really appreciate all the quick 
feedback.

In case it ends up being useful for anyone else, I was able to get the 
tagged messages to “sync” across devices by rsync-ing the whole 
folder `~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Database.noindex` from 
the source to the destination device. It took a little while for that 
whole folder to sync, but it did the trick.  I’m not sure if there is 
maybe a single plist file within that folder that is needed, so maybe 
rsync-ing the whole folder is overkill. If so I would be happ to hear 
about it.

Thanks again to everyone who replied!

—Jeff

On 2 Dec 2024, at 16:15, Scott wrote:

> On 3 December 2024, at 0544, Steve Mayer via mailmate wrote: > I’m 
> able to see tags on messages that I’ve applied in MailMate with 
> Preside on iOS and vice versa. As far as I know the tags are IMAP 
> Keywords which should be stored with the
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> On 3 December 2024, at 0544, Steve Mayer via mailmate wrote:
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>> I’m able to see tags on messages that I’ve applied in MailMate 
>> with Preside on iOS and vice versa.  As far as I know the tags are 
>> IMAP Keywords which should be stored with the message in the IMAP 
>> store.
>>
>
> As the kids said a few years ago:  This is the way.
>
> As others have pointed out, getting Tags to work between devices, and 
> even between applications on the same device, is essentially down to 
> the IMAP server itself and the support for IMAP Keywords it has.
>
> In addition to Preside working for iOS (and, indeed, being a 
> spectacular way to help view/clean-up your tags, if your IMAP server 
> supports them), I've had great results with:
>
> o  Mutt
> o  neomutt
> o  Roundcube webmail
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> The latter did require an old plugin and a bit of tweaking, but, it 
> confirmed that MailMate was doing the right thing by the IMAP servers 
> I use (Dovecot, Cyrus).
>
> For email archiving from MailMate, I also modified the "DevonThink 
> Pro" command to respect tags from MailMate and save them as tags in 
> DevonThink.
>
> It's rather frustrating that support isn't more ubiquitous, but, these 
> combinations have worked very well and consistently for me.
>
> Scott
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>> Steve Mayer
>> smayer69 at me.com
>>
>> On 2 Dec 2024, at 12:36, Henry Seiden wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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. So, ig your question is 
>>> whether a tag is attached to outgoing messages that might be a 
>>> different scenario.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>>
>>> Henry Seiden
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>>> Techworks Pro Co.
>>> E: info<at>techworkspro<dot>com
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>>> On 2 Dec 2024, at 12:04, Jeff Bullard via mailmate wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I followed [these 
>>>> instructions](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.freron.com/mailmate/2016-January/005542.html__;!!KwNVnqRv!BXJXDDfdMT2CYripS5IlLw3hbus0UG3YB8zVnOdFm6upewmK_AkKXH9qH8VHbGVoa7cG8qLta0kgnr1QOkNd7N0$) 
>>>> on the forum from 2016 for “syncing” the settings between two 
>>>> devices (*i.e.*, copying the `.plist` files when MailMate is shut 
>>>> down on both devices).  This worked for most things except that the 
>>>> messages I have tagged on the source device are still not tagged on 
>>>> the destination device.  Do I need to copy over the Database folder 
>>>> or the Messages folder for that to work?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> —Jeff
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