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Is there any reason for why IMAP keywords cannot be used for labels by e.g. having some prefix for the keyword which indicates that it should be interpreted as
by jeltz 7y ago
Is there any reason for why IMAP keywords cannot be used for labels by e.g. having some prefix for the keyword which indicates that it should be interpreted as a label? Client support is of course needed but to me it seems like the IMAP protocol already supports labels. Maybe IMAP lacks the ability to enumerate all labels?
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoGmail already has a bad hack for this: It reports labels as folders and that duplicate copies of emails are in them. So the issue is that any other solution would work improperly for Gmail. Client support is a huge part of the problem: If it's outside the standard, clients aren't going to handle it the same way. JMAP, of course, fixes this.
- jeltz 7y agoIMAP keywords are in the standard.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoYes, but how to use them to emulate labels support is not.