Bug 253492

Summary:	kmail should display and use thunderbird IMAP tags
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Florian Staudacher <florian_staudacher>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugs.kde.org, cJ-kde, luigi.toscano, pa_ubach
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Florian Staudacher 2010-10-07 12:31:44 UTC

Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

When KMail accesses an IMAP folder containing emails that have been assigned tags with Thunderbird, these tags aren't displayed anywhere. This is also true for the other way round.

Thus I wish for the ability to display, add and edit tags that can be viewed in both applications.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Pere-Andreu 2011-06-27 14:52:59 UTC

I would like to report the same problem.

I have checked and both Thuderbird and Evoution clients work flawlessly with IMAP tags. Both standard and custom. However, Kmail is unable to set tags properly to the server so that the tag can be identified or synced with other clients.

Furthermore, not even Kmail itself is able to identify through the server the tags set by another Kmail client or either.

You can see a videoclip that shows clearly the problem in the following link.
https://web.cimne.upc.edu/users/ubach/otros/kmail-kmail.ogv

Please, solve this bug, because it is making unusable a very important feature of the IMAP protocol.

Comment 2 Pere-Andreu 2011-06-27 15:04:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I would like to report the same problem.
> 
> I have checked and both Thuderbird and Evoution clients work flawlessly with
> IMAP tags. Both standard and custom. However, Kmail is unable to set tags
> properly to the server so that the tag can be identified or synced with other
> clients.
> 
> Furthermore, not even Kmail itself is able to identify through the server the
> tags set by another Kmail client or either.
> 
> You can see a videoclip that shows clearly the problem in the following link.
> https://web.cimne.upc.edu/users/ubach/otros/kmail-kmail.ogv
> 
> Please, solve this bug, because it is making unusable a very important feature
> of the IMAP protocol.

By the way, I am using Kontact version 4.4.9 and yes, the error can be reproduced always.

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:14:30 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 4 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-18 23:50:40 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2

Comment 5 Florian Staudacher 2012-08-19 00:58:13 UTC

If by "still valid for kmail2" you mean that this feature is still missing from kmail2 and is still wanted, then: yes.

Especially now that Mozilla has announced they will be dialing back on development of Thunderbird, which in my opinion creates an even greater need of an alternative, properly maintained email client (such as kmail) which can interchange email taggings in a way that those taggings can be viewed and modified with other clients (i.e. IMAP tags).

Comment 6 Erik Quaeghebeur 2012-08-20 07:50:47 UTC

Merge with https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283020 (dupe with more votes)?

Comment 7 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-20 20:30:14 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> Merge with https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283020 (dupe with more
> votes)?

Makes sense, thansk!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 283020 ***