tags, keywords, annotations

[Austin Frank]

Hello!

I'm looking for some additional options for organizing my emails.
Splitting rules give me a very coarse-grained organization of my
correspondences, but I'd like to have more flexibility.  Call me a
hopeless follower of trends, but the solution I have in mind is to add
tags to my email.  This has been done successfully for Apple Mail [1]
and for Thunderbird [2].

One solution seems to be adding headers to mails (either X-tags or
X-keywords).  I've tried to do this by just hitting 'e' in the summary
buffer, but get a message that the backend (nnimap) doesn't support
editing.  Is there a way to insert new headers into a mail from within
gnus (specifically, one that works for nnimap)?

I'd also like to be able to limit and search by these headers.  I hope
that eventually mairix will add the ability to index arbitrary headers
[3], but another approach might be to also store the tags using IMAP's
Keywords.  Is there a way to use gnus to add IMAP keywords to a message?

Thanks for any help!
/au

Footnotes:
[1]  http://indev.ca/MailTags.html

[2]  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/1832

[3]  
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20070306164141.GA22907%40polaris.nrao.edu

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