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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