Feature Request: enable labels in Fastmail

[deeprave]

Hi there,

I added my FastMail account to eM Client and noticed that labels are not shown as they are in my GMail accounts. FastMail supports this now (a relatively new feature), and I have it enabled. I’d like to see support for this in eM Client, as it is essential to my workflow.

Typically I will create rules on the server to auto-label messages, leaving Inbox alone. That way, when I read the email, I can archive (aka remove inbox label) and keep a copy without needing to explicitly “move” it. All of this works flawlessly with gmail accounts.

Maybe this can be done already with FastMail, but I am yet to discover the option.

Cheers,
David

[cyberzork]

I would suggest to contact Fastmail to contact eM Client about updating this new (Fastmail) label option, as Fastmail would need to organize an API to eM Client to then sync like Gmail labels do.

[deeprave]

The API already exists - and I’m reasonably sure it is gmail compatible.

Airmail (Mac, iOS) already supports labels for FastMail accounts.

Regards,
David

[cyberzork]

The API already exists - and I’m reasonably sure it is gmail compatible

If the Fastmail API already supports that, then I would change your title into a “Feature Request”.

[deeprave]

Done! thanks, cyberzork

[cyberzork]

You need to change Your Subject Selection (Category) to a (Feature Request) like this.

Currently your Category at the top is “Mail” in Green colour. So needs to change the Category.

[DustyLifeless]

I see all the talk here about changing the title and category but nothing about the feature request itself.

I would love to have labels supported better than they are now. Being able to see the labels a message is tagged with as well as conversation view not duplicating mail with multiple labels would be amazing.

[westxdesign]

same as the previous comment - i’d like to see an update on this feature request

[baa76]

Same, would be great.

[fawaz]

I second this request. Perhaps a better integration with fastmail too like JMAP.

[Gary]

Unfortunately there are technical issues on Fastmail servers that prevent syncing of tags.

For JMAP, I answered that elsewhere:

JMAP support wanted

JMAP is not really meant to be used with desktop client apps, rather it is designed to work with webclients instead. However, we did investigate the possibility of supporting it, and even created a prototype eM Client application. Unfortunately the only real implementation of JMAP is Cyrus, which is full of bugs and incomplete features, so not really usable. At this time we don’t see any benefit using JMAP instead of IMAP, but if it goes through a rewrite and has some actual server support, we…

[fawaz]

Thanks for the quick response… for the “technical issues on Fastmail servers” do you recommend we reach out to fastmail support?

[SilverM99]

@Gary This is so disappointing. I tested eM Client with my Gmail accounts and labels/tags work great. After buying a lifetime license, I discovered that even though labels work the same for Gmail and Fastmail, the eM Client doesn’t work for the labels in Fastmail.

Since labels = folders, is there any way to add this functionally by keeping track of the folders (i.e., labels) where copies of each e-mail message exist?

Is there a specific feature we need to persuade Fastmail to add to their API to support this?