On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 08:45:07AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-11-02 14:14, Chris Green wrote: > > > What causes the message "Tagging is not supported."? I'm getting it > > when I try and tag messages in one particular directory. I can't see > > anything wrong with permissions or anything and the messages open OK > > in mutt. > > Since you apparently write "directory" as a synonym for "folder", I'm > going to assume you use Maildirs. > No, it's a mbox file containing a few (i.e. four or five) E-Mails.
None of the mbox files in this particular directory can have their messages tagged. (To my mind 'Folder' is an MS euphemism for a directory!) > Is that particular Maildir on a different mount / filesystem? AFAIK > tagging an item in a Maildir involves changing the filename. That could > fail for example if the filesystem had a limit on filename length, or > prohibited certain characters in filenames. > > Or, you could be out of inodes on the mount. That has been one > complaint about Maildirs, though it never happened to me - I don't get > enough mail! > So, thanks for trying, but I don't think your thoughts are the answer. I do have write permission (and anyway how could I have written the messages there if I hadn't) and it's not a mount or a symbolic link or anything, it's just a directory in my /home/chris hierarchy. -- Chris Green
