Interpreting keywords

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Mark Foley wrote:

> I've marked several messages in Thunderbird using tags. Tags used are:
>
> 0 Important

>
> The messages so tagged appear to have the flag fields set in the IMAP Maildir:
>
> cur/1449002162.8993_0.mail:2,Sb
> cur/1449001929.28087_0.mail:2,Sad
>
> I've looked in dovecot-keywords and find:
>
> $ more dovecot-keywords
> 0 $label1
>
> I assume these "$label" values are macros that possibly refer to "Important", "Work", etc., but
> where are these $label's defined? Are they defined in the dovecot configs somewhere or does the
> mail client just "know" what these correspond to?

The latter, see 
http://superuser.com/questions/983401/import-export-or-retrieve-thunderbird-tags-from-imap-server

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Steffen Kaiser
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