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

    From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 27 15:10:48 2024
    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.

    --
    Eduardo
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  • From D@21:1/5 to Eduardo Chappa on Sun Jul 28 11:20:07 2024
    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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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 28 11:45:27 2024
    On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, D wrote:

    Great, thank you Eduardo and let me wish you a pleasant sunday evening!
    =)

    Thank you! Have a great day you too as well.

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    Eduardo
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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 28 09:38:16 2024
    On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, D wrote:

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

    Yes, that is the way to do that.

    --
    Eduardo
    https://alpineapp.email (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Eduardo Chappa on Sun Jul 28 18:47:50 2024
    On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

    On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, D wrote:

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

    Yes, that is the way to do that.



    Great, thank you Eduardo and let me wish you a pleasant sunday evening! =)

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