Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine Subject: Re: Question about adding keyword flags to mails in Maildir folders. Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 23:17:10 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <9db5e63c-06dd-c83f-9538-de6efe9fd46c@washington.edu> <10621fe0-2ccf-32eb-29d8-5c36a5ac0fac@washington.edu> <3a5d16b8d0da55c8e855177e25352318@www.rocksolidbbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2556770"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: <3a5d16b8d0da55c8e855177e25352318@www.rocksolidbbs.com> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.mail.pine:3152 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.