I'd like to be able to tag messages with meta-data (like "To Do" or "Mum's Birthday" or "Project 257") and then be able to produce searches based on that.
I think what the graandparent wants is the ability to put multiple tags on an individual email. Oftentimes emails can cross over to many different topics.
So is there an e-mail program with multiple categories on one message that also has 1. local mail storage (useful for dial-up users), 2. availability to all (no in-group membership needed), and 3. reduced susceptibility to Windows e-mail viruses (lookOut!)?
I believe labels are simply coloring a message one color or another. The problem with this is that there's a limited amount of labels to choose from, and last I checked you couldn't create more (you can only change the presets).
Is there a reason Labels won't work? There look to be only 5 labels available, but you can customize their meaning. In contrast, Outlook has Categories which appear to be expandable to an arbitrary number of categories and Eudora has 7 customizable labels.
This is basically what Gmail does, and I agree it would be nice to see that in Thunderbird. It removes the need to categorize a message into a single folder only, since you can just put as many tags on it as you want.
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So is there an e-mail program with multiple categories on one message that also has 1. local mail storage (useful for dial-up users), 2. availability to all (no in-group membership needed), and 3. reduced susceptibility to Windows e-mail viruses (lookOut!)?
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By default, they are named "Important" (Red), etc., but you can edit them to read "Mum's birthday" if you want.
The limit of 5 is probably a bit low, though, and it does not sync back to my IMAP server, so it could be more useful. Anyway, HTH.
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It does to mine.
(Cyrus).
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