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Re: recipe to add keywords to an imap message

2006-03-31 11:21:51
Sur 2006-03-29, Don Russell skribis:
Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
Don Russell schreef:


I want to assign "labels" to messages using a procmail recipe.
That means "storing keywords on the imap message on the imap server".


google: imap keywords procmail

Inside 1st hit: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#keywords

See also maildirkw.

Thank you.... that looks exactly like what I want to do.... that's much
simpler than I was anticipating. :-)


I just did some experiments with this on a new system that I'm 
setting up and discovered that you need to "seed" the 
mbox-formatted mailbox with a message that contains the IMAP 
keyword(s) that you want to use. That will ensure that the first 
message in the mbox is a pseudo message that includes a header 
like this:

  X-IMAP: 1143223486 0000000047 $Label5

Do NOT try to create this header by hand. Instead use a decent 
IMAP client and the IMAP protocol to assign keyword(s) to any
message in the target mailbox. To set keywords with Pine, see the 
instructions here:

  <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#keywords>

Also note that this only works with UW IMAP (AFAIK).

Please post any questions or comments about this. I plan to 
update this section of my Procmail Quick Start soon.

Thanks,
  Nancy

-- 
  Nancy McGough ~ <http://www.ii.com> ~ <http://deflexion.com>


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