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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