Keywords & sync

Steffen skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Oct 7 20:08:55 UTC 2014


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Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Am 07.10.2014 um 18:56 schrieb Ralf Hildebrandt:
>> We're using keywords within Thunderbird, and we're syncing those
>> using IMAP. When using more than 5 keywords, we're envcountering
>> problems - they're only partially being synced (between two
>> clients, but not all clients).
>> 
>> Any idea why this could be happening?
>> 
>> The introduction of tagging in Thunderbird is described here: 
>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114656>
>> 
> 
> guess you mean this
> 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Tags
> 
> IMAP
> 
> Thunderbird tries to store tags on the server using IMAP keywords.
> If the IMAP server doesn't support that it will store lags locally
> in the .msf file for the folder. That means that another PC can not
> see the labels.
> 

There is another paragraphe to notice:

"For sharing tags with another PC (or Thunderbird using a different
profile) you need to have defined the same tags to see them.
Thunderbird appears to have hard coded support for five tags that
mimic the old labels."

Did you tested, if all Thunderbirds store the equally named tag with
the same IMAP keyword?


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Steffen
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