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Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders.

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On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, rebel wrote:
>
>>> Local access to a maildir folder does not accept keywords because these 
>>> were not part of the original specification of the Maildir format.
>>> 
>>> There are extensions of the Maildir format, such as those implemented in 
>>> the Dovecot server, that accept keywords for messages in a maildir format. 
>>> That might be a way to get keywords into your messages in that folder.
>> 
>> Hello, does the same limitation apply to the mbox format? Because I'm 
>> getting the same message as mentioned above.
>
> mbox is a little bit different. alpine supports keywords in these folders, 
> but it accepts only up to 32. i do not know if all email programs save them 
> in the same way, since there is no standard on how to save keywords in a 
> folder.

Hello Eduardo,

Since my keywords would only be used on my local system, do you think it 
would be feasible to modify alpine so that it stores keywords associated 
with emails, as extended attributes of the file in the Maildir folder?

Do you think this could work, or would I risk creating some kind of mess 
or unforeseen consequences as a result?

Best regards,
Daniel

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