[Dovecot] Keyword limit?

[Ben Morrow]

At  7PM -0600 on  6/05/13 you (Michael M Slusarz) wrote:
> Quoting Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk>:
> > At  4PM -0600 on  6/05/13 you (Michael M Slusarz) wrote:
> >> Running into a weird issue in a mailbox that has 26+ keywords.
> >
> > You are using Maildir, yes? Maildir stores keywords in the flags field
> > of the message filename, using lowercase letters, so there is a limit of
> > 26 per folder. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir .
> 
> Thanks for the pointer (looks like I was foolishly doing a 'keyword'  
> Title search on the wiki and never did a 'keyword' Text search).
> 
> However, I still think there is a bug. That page states:
> 
> "This means that only 26 keywords are possible to store in the  
> maildir. If more are used, they're still stored in Dovecot's index  
> files."
> 
> This is not happening for me though.  Instead all keywords above 26  
> are lost immediately after applying them.

Hmm, I missed that... I don't know, I'm afraid, so I'll just ask the
usual questions: which version of Dovecot are you using, have you tried
the latest...?

Ben