Re: [Evolution] Issues with labels and flags

[Mark Foley <mfoley novatec-inc com>]

> From: Ángel González <angel 16bits net>
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:59:26 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Issues with labels and flags
>
> Mark Foley wrote:
> > Milan's point about Thunderbird answers another question (why label
> > names are
> > the same in Tbird and Evolution).  But here's the thing: When I 'tag'
> > something
> > to e.g.  "Personal" in Thunderbird (green), it shows up as green in
> > Evolution. 
> > But when I 'label' something as "Personal" (green) in Evolution, it
> > does not
> > show in Thunderbird.  'Tagging' in Thunderbird adds tag letters to
> > the IMAP
> > filename (e.g.  the trailing "b" in cur/1449002747.6406_0.mail:2,Sb).
> > 'Labeling' in Evolution does not. 
>
> Is it an IMAP account or a local Maildir? Or are you looking at the
> filename at the server filesystem?

It is an IMAP account hosted on a remote (office) server in Maildir format
served by Dovecot.

> It looks like what Dovecot does for locally storing the label (in
> addition of using the index):
>  http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#IMAP_keywords

Yes, I am *very* familiar with that page! I keep reading and re-reading it
hoping, like some Hogwarts character, that some magic insight will pop out.

> In that case, evolution seems to be doing something "wrong" (or perhaps
> not recognising that the server can store them), as Dovecot isn't
> picking them (while with thunderbird it does). 

Well, Pete Biggs said (in a part of the message you didn't include): "The labels
only apply to the messages on a specific machine - i.e.  they are held in a
local database; the flag, which is an IMAP property, will be present on whatever
client is using the IMAP store."

So, he is making a distinction between lables and flags. But I see no mechanism
for setting one versus the other in Evolution. Also, it could be I need a newer
version of Evolution, which I'm going to try getting this evening.

> Can you provide the IMAP commands sent by evolution?
>
> In order to get evolution log, you can use:
>
>  CAMEL_DEBUG=imapx:io evolution &>log.txt

Ha! If you can tell me how to do that, I'd be glad to try. Is that CAMEL... line
you have the howto? Do I just type that at a command line, as is? Do I have to
be root? Do I do it before starting Evolution? Need a bit more info on this.
Meanwhile, I'll try upgrading Ubuntu/Evolution. Hope that doesn't hose my whole
system.

--Mark