Automatically creating tags from IMAP keywords (was: How does tagging of emails help?)

[Michael A. Puls II]

In Thunderbird, when you create a tag and apply the tag to some messages,
Thunderbird sets the the tag's name as a keyword on those messages (if the
IMAP server supports keywords).

Then, if you load Opera's built-in mail client for example, Opera will
automatically create Label from that detected keyword.

However, Thunderbird doesn't do the same. If you set a keyword on a
message in another client, Thunderbird won't automatically create a tag
for it.

I think it'd be great if Thunderbird supported doing that. Make syncing of
tags work across multiple instances of Thunderbird and even across support
clients like Opera.

I'm curious. Would anyone else like to have this?

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Michael

[Stereotactic]

Cool.

This is what I am pushing at here.

The workflow possibly would be:
1) Download the mail.
2) Go through the text of the mail as it being downloaded. (This be done
in the background by Thunderbird).
3) Apply tags either on pre-defined triggers or based on keywords in the
mail.
4) So you have categories (in Opera) and some sort of a tag cloud.

For this, one would possibly have to create a taxonomy or train the
algorithm to define and refine tags. It is a doable project because the
idea is taken from the "spam filtering" options in many add ons (where
keywords trigger it is as spam or blacklisted ids matched with the
database).

ANY IDEAS??!