Jason Davies

I've been trying to find a decent email client with tagging support today.

I host my own email server, and I want something like GMail's tags. I am at the stage where my 5-level folder hierarchy has become unwieldy. I used to think using tags was strange and disorganised, but I have seen the light! Multi-dimensional tagging is the way forward. Much better than a single, fixed hierarchy. You can still decide on a fixed structure of tags, as opposed to just tagging things with the first few words that come into your head (which is what I used to think).

Mozilla Thunderbird supports adding custom IMAP tags, but somehow the interface just doesn't cut it for me. I want autocomplete, and an intuitive interface where tags aren't just bolted on and hidden in a submenu.

Incidentally, Mozilla Thunderbird has been crashing a lot today (something to do with Ubuntu Hardy Heron's latest updates). It happens every time I get a new email. Really annoying!

I sometimes use a command-line email client, mutt, for its integration with the vim text editor. This doesn't really have an easy-to-use interface for a large hierarchy of IMAP folders, let alone tags.

Here are some potentially useful links for mutt:

• Using an X-Label header
• User-space filesystem method

If anyone knows of an addon or similar for Thunderbird, that would make my life a lot easier!

I am using the sound of a Leica shutter as an email alert sound in Mozilla Thunderbird :)