<br><br><div id="WISESTAMP_SIG_4183"><div style="font-size: 13.3px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Sebastian,<br><br>If IMAP supports tags, is that not a big deal ?<br>I mean, having a converging point for all tags, is that not like the holy grail in this field ?<br>
<br>Obviously, there must be a caveat, you mentioned client-support, which is inconvenient, but of no long term consequence.<br>Do you know what the status is of *server* support ? Because imo this *is* a big deal, without real standardized server support an IMAP store for tags is off the table.<br>
<br>best,<br>Sander<br><img src="http://p1.wisestamp.com/pixel.png?p=mozilla&v=2.4.5.0&t=1309976720359&u=14affd52174f1457" height="1" width="1"></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Sebastian Spaeth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Sebastian@sspaeth.de">Sebastian@sspaeth.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:22:23 -0700, Carl Worth <<a href="mailto:cworth@cworth.org">cworth@cworth.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> First, it's important to understand that any friction here comes from<br>
> Gmail exposing its tags as folders, (which in turn could be the lack of<br>
> availability of a more tag-aware protocol than imap).<br>
<br>
</div>Even risking to become a bit thread-offtopic: IMAP itself supports tags<br>
just fine and should be able to read/set/search all tags just fine (even<br>
any user defined). My feeling is more that this is a lack of tag-using<br>
IMAP clients to expose existing tag functionality. Thunderbird is doing<br>
fine exposing up to 4 user-defined tags that are synced to the server,<br>
but it's still not doing all it can.<br>
<br>
I still believe that it would be possible to eg. sync all our notmuch<br>
tags to the IMAP server, which would help enormously with syncing across<br>
machines. I still have the long-term goal of offlineimap being able to sync<br>
notmuch tags. (very long term, though)<br>
<br>
As for Gmail and folders, I think it is an ugly kludge leading to all<br>
kinds of awkward behavior (at least when treating Gmail as an IMAP<br>
server). On the other hand it exposes nice tag behavior to clients that<br>
wouldn't support it.<br>
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Sebastian<br>
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