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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags
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David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz> writes:
>
>>
>> Every such maildir extension out there that I know of was invented for
>> some specific application. Out of the two documented formats there are,
>> the dovecot-keywords file is:
>>
>> 1) more limited (26 tags maximum)
>> 2) simpler to implement, especially wrt. detecting changes
>> 3) usable out of the box with some tools, as you noted
>
> Actually, I just mean the extra maildir flags. I guess only the dovecot
> sync tool syncs dovecot-keywords. And I don't think "notmuch+dsync
> users" is a very big group, fwiw.

Straight rsync would also transfer those files, of course.

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