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

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On Sat, 27 Jul 2024, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2024, D wrote:
>
>> Dear alpiners,
>> 
>> When I try to create my own keyword flag and add it to a mail in Maildir 
>> folders or in Imap folders alpine tells me "Cannot add keywords for this 
>> folder".
>
> 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.
>

Thank you very much Eduardo!

So instead of just using the Maildir patch, I'd instead just install a 
local dovecot and point Alpine towards that?

Not as elegant perhaps, but at least a solution to the problem if I 
understood you correctly.

Thank you very much! =)

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