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What's weird is IMAP has keywords, but they can't be used exactly like labels, no idea why IMAP hasn't been extended to include labels, seems rather easy.
by mavhc 10y ago
What's weird is IMAP has keywords, but they can't be used exactly like labels, no idea why IMAP hasn't been extended to include labels, seems rather easy.
- brongondwana 10y agoThe hardest bit when building a client is that keywords are per-folder, so unless you store all the email in a single folder server-side, you have to run the keyword search in every folder, every time, and you can't get updates to multiple folders at once, so you have to re-run that search frequently, which hammers servers pretty hard.
- raphman 10y agoHuh, I've been extensively using custom IMAP flags/labels with Opera M2. It worked great.
- int_19h 10y agoOpera is the only non-web client that I know of that has labels. But how does it actually represent them on IMAP level? And what happens when you view the same mailbox using another client?