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

From D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups comp.mail.pine
Subject Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders.
Date 2025-02-03 23:17 +0100
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On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, rebel wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 1:12:32 +0000, 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.
>
> Interestingly, I am getting the same error message for an mbox folder:
> "Cannot add keywords for this folder". So for some reason it doesn't
> seem to work (alpine 2.26).
>
> Any ideas where to look for the culprit (or how to fix it)?
>
> Thanks
> Michal
>
> --
>

One place to start could be to have a look in the journal. It is 
accessible by pressing "J" in the main menu. You can also toggle the debug 
level of messages to get more information.

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Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-23 00:03 +0200
  Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-23 12:01 +0200
  Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2024-07-27 15:10 -0600
    Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-28 11:20 +0200
      Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2024-07-28 09:38 -0600
        Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-28 18:47 +0200
          Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2024-07-28 11:45 -0600
    Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. rebel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (rebel) - 2025-01-31 10:42 +0000
      Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2025-01-31 18:12 -0700
        Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-02-01 11:47 +0100
        Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. rebel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (rebel) - 2025-02-03 14:55 +0000
          Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-02-03 23:17 +0100
        Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. rebel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (rebel) - 2025-06-09 08:52 +0000

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