Re: X-Keywords: can mbsync detect and propagate local edits?

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 05:39:55PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović via isync-devel wrote:
>I wasn't aware of IMAP keywords, these seem distinct from
>X-Keywords?
>
x-keywords is just the semi-official header to store extended flags (== 
imap keywords).

>It'd appear that the approach of editing messages in place
>is also not an appropriate way to change their metadata (i.e. without
>renaming them), since IMAP declares messages immutable(ish) post
>delivery, so perhaps I should instruct my client to rename the message
>files instead?
>
that will work, though of course it's wasteful to re-upload the 
messages.