On 16 Apr 2014, at 2:05, Scott A. McIntyre wrote:
Apple Mail lets you flag different messages with different colours.
There seems to be SOME support for that in MailMate, in that
previously flagged messages from Mail.app show up with a different
coloured flag in MailMate (I've seen at least Red and Yellow flags).
That is correct. You might not care, but here is the technical
explanation for the records:
Apple Mail uses 3 IMAP keywords to specify color (in addition to the
standard `\Flagged`):
$MailFlagBit0
$MailFlagBit1
$MailFlagBit2
As indicated by the names, these are interpreted as bits and therefore 8
different combinations (colors) are possible. Only 7 are used by Apple
Mail though (IIRC).
As you have noticed, MailMate uses these IMAP keywords to change the
color of the flag.
However, how can I make better/greater use of that? Or can I for now?
Yes, the standard key bindings include this:
"F" = {
"0" = ( "removeTag:", "\\Flagged", "removeTag:", "$MailFlagBit0",
"removeTag:", "$MailFlagBit1", "removeTag:", "$MailFlagBit2" );
"1" = ( "setTag:", "\\Flagged", "removeTag:", "$MailFlagBit0",
"removeTag:", "$MailFlagBit1", "removeTag:", "$MailFlagBit2" );
"2" = ( "setTag:", "\\Flagged", "setTag:", "$MailFlagBit0",
"removeTag:", "$MailFlagBit1", "removeTag:", "$MailFlagBit2" );
...
};
This means that if you hit ⇧F and then follow it by a number (1-7)
then you can set the color of the flag (0 removes the flag). This is all
you need to know. The rest is just because I like to tell how it works
;-)
I saw that Benny mentioned there was work going on with the tag
feature, and I'm happy to wait - but I did like the ability to simply
flag something with a certain colour to represent a prioritisation
interest for my attention.
The “work” done is currently only a list of things to do to improve
tagging in general. Some day.
Off topic: The bit-technique used by Apple is interesting because some
(many?) servers have a limitation on the number of tags (IMAP keywords)
available. I don't really have complaints from users about this yet, but
the bit-technique could be a workaround to allow a very large number of
tags with a very small number of IMAP keywords (for example, 16 IMAP
keywords could be used to provide 65536 tags). This would of course
require a mapping from tag names to bits, but a mapping is already
necessary if using non-ASCII tag names.
--
Benny
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