344289 - Default Tags are not being set as the correct imap keywords on the imap server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Bruce Z. Lysik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: version 2 alpha 1 (20060711)

When I select an a default tag such as 'Important' or 'Later' and apply it to a message, the imap keyword which gets set in the imap server is $labelx (where x is a number).

For example, I just set an email as 'Important', and then I check the imap keywords set in that message folder.  (By viewing the ':list' file in courier-imap):

 > more :list
NonJunk
$label1

1152649351.68367_1.raisewise.corp.yahoo.com:0
1152649417.68423_1.raisewise.corp.yahoo.com:0
1152649417.68426_1.raisewise.corp.yahoo.com:0
1152649484.68442_1.raisewise.corp.yahoo.com:0
1152649484.68445_1.raisewise.corp.yahoo.com:1 0

So you can see the '$label1' is being set instead of 'Important'

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set a default tag to an email.

Actual Results:  
View the imap keywords file on the imap server and see $labelx instead of the actual tag.


Expected Results:  
I expect to see Important or Later.

courier-imap-4.0.6

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

actually, that's the expected, correct behaviour. That keeps backward compatibility with old labels.

Comment 2

[Bruce Z. Lysik]

Whoops.  Nevermind then.  Thanks. :)

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

If you really want the keywords on the server to match the tags, and don't care about backwards compatibility, you can delete the default tags and then add them back yourself - then we'll use the matching keys. You might want to shut down after deleting the tags because of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345999

Comment 4

[Bruce Z. Lysik]

I don't need the server keywords to match the tags.  This was just part of my investigating why I can't search by tag.  (I though this was the culprit.)