[MlMt] $MailFlagBit0

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 14 Jul 2025, at 1:38, Randall Gellens wrote:

> Based on advice from Benny from years ago, some of my older rules use 
> the following sequence of actions to set a gray flag on messages:
>
> [Set Tag/Keyword] [Flagged]
> [Remove Tag/Keyword] [$MailFlagBit0]
> [Set Tag/Keyword] [$MailFlagBit1]
> [Set Tag/Keyword] [$MailFlagBit2]
>
> I want to duplicate this in another rule just now, using r6272, and in 
> the available values in the pop-up for both Set and Remove 
> Tag/Keyword, I only see $MailFlagBit1 and $MailFlagBit2, not 
> $MailFlagBit0.
>
> I chose an available value, quit MailMate, edited Library/Application\ 
> Support/MailMate/Mailboxes.plist to change the value to $MailBit0, and 
> it works as expected.

This would also be the expected behavior. This workaround is fine.

> Is $MailFlagBit0 identical to $Flagged and not needed now?

No, it was missing in your popup because MailMate did not find this 
keyword on any existing messages. MailMate only lists what it can find 
and then you ran into the problem that you had no way to set a seemingly 
non-existing IMAP keyword. But you found a workaround and after using it 
then the missing keyword should appear in the popup.

Another workaround would be to force MailMate to acknowledge the 
existence of these bits by explicitly assigning them tag names in the 
Tags settings pane -- but this would likely be annoying in other parts 
of the interface (although it would allow using it once to force the 
IMAP keyword into existence).

-- 
Benny
(Note: On vacation until August 4th.)
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