[MlMt] tags and email client

[aisrael]

Following these email exchanges with Scott and Benny, I finally went to 
the advanced Search settings of Preside, and much to my surprise, I was 
able to access 25 of my Mailmate tags (why 25 among the ~100 I use, this 
is beyond my limited understanding). This is supposed to be impossible, 
but it seems to work??????

Alain


Dear Scott and Benny, thank you for the answers that confirm my worries. 
I do use Mailmate tags extensively, I currently use about a hundred of 
them, including 4-5 of the classical custom IMAP keywords. The only 
other mail client I use is Preside on my iPhone, which is very good but, 
as you explain for the other clients, cannot “read” the tags.  I 
also checked Thunderbird recently, but it still does not work.
Too bad for me.

Alain

On 8 Jun 2024, at 9:27, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 7 Jun 2024, at 18:06, aisrael wrote:
>
>> My understanding, as a non expert in mail clients’ subtleties, is 
>> that it is impossible to transfer tags (or smart mailboxes based on 
>> tags) from Mailmate to another client (except for a few IMAP 
>> keywords). Is it absolutely impossible, or is there a workaround?
>
> Scott already gave a thorough answer. I'll just add some random 
> thoughts:
>
> * Not all servers support IMAP keywords, in particular, 
> Office365/Exchange. In those cases, MailMate will quietly (which is 
> kind of bad) make them local-only.
> * Some server have a limit on the number of IMAP keywords which 
> results in various silent errors (like tags getting cleared shortly 
> after being set).
> * Thunderbird has, I think, 5 custom IMAP keywords. Tags can be 
> created in MailMate which map to those keywords and then they should 
> work nicely together.
> * Colored flags in Apple Mail also uses IMAP keywords. MailMate 
> mirrors this behavior.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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