* Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> [11-02-17 14:36]:
> 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.

look at the last few lines of the header and/or display them here (not
more than 10 lines).

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