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

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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

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