Bug 470550

Summary: Tags on Messages are not stored in IMAP server
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: pietz
Component: message listAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: jos
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.22.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description pietz 2023-06-02 10:43:18 UTC 
SUMMARY

I use different kmail clients on different computers. All are connected to the same IMAP server. When I tag a message with a keyword, I can only see this tag on that specific computer - not on the other ones.



EXPECTED RESULT

In Thunderbird those tags are stored on the IMAP server. In my case I use dovecot as IMAP server. In the file dovecot-keywords I can see every word, which Thunderbird uses for tagging. But none of the tags defined in kmail. Is kmail maybe only storing the tags in the local akonadi database?

Thanks
Andreas
Comment 1 Jos van den Oever 2025-01-27 18:46:02 UTC 
IMAP keywords have been part of the standard since IMAP 4rev1 (December 1996). They are sent in the IMAP protocol and not part of the mail itself. Since IMAP 4rev2, there are special keywords that start with '$' such as '$Phising' and '$Junk'.

## IMAP 4rev2 (August 2021) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9051#name-flags-message-attribute
## IMAP 4rev1 (December 1996) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2060#section-2.3.2

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