Interpreting keywords

[Michael Slusarz]

On 12/3/2015 12:30 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

> 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

IMAP flags are annoying since they are limited to a subset of ASCII 
(e.g. no spaces), thus the need to do flag mappings on the client side.

michael