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IMAP spec appears to support custom keywords (labels): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3632102/imap-custom-keyw... but not every IMAP server implements those.

it might also be difficult to synchronize those. (how would you get a list of all keyword changes since last time?)

tracking keyword changes locally and then submitting a hidden message with the changes seems like a hack (and how would you deal with conflicts?)

likewise tracking tags for all messages in a hidden location. (how much space would that take?)

i sympathize with the problem, but it looks like a non-trivial challenge to me. it's probably easier to solve the local sync issues.



IMAP does have a way to update flags for seen messages:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10689062/synchronize-rep...

and supposedly it is efficient, so this would work after all.




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