Tags created in Thunderbird do not appear in Zimbra webmail

[zpellman]

I am using Thunderbird 2 on Vista to access my IMAP account with my company which is running ZCS 4.5.5 (open source) as its email server and have been using tags as my primary means of organizing my emails.

Up until now, I have been able to create and assign tags in Thunderbird without a problem, and they would show up in the Zimbra webmail as well (although if I made a tag in Thunderbird "The Tag", in the webmail it would show up as "the_tag".

However, I first noticed a problem when I tagged some emails and moved them into a saved messages folder that the tags would disappear. So in doing some investigating, it seems that any news tags I create in Thunderbird do not appear in the Zimbra webmail at all, and when I move the message with the newly created tag in my saved messages, the tags disappear.

Is there a way to manually sync tags between with Zimbra? How can I track down if this is a Thunderbird or Zimbra problem?

I searched previous posts for an answer but didn't see that anyone else even had a similar problem. I also searched Thunderbird's knowledge base but didn't find an answer and have a similar help request out on their forums.

Any help is appreciated.

Zach

[zpellman]

I mentioned that a (hypothetical) tag "The Tag" created in Thunderbird shows up as "the_tag" in my Zimbra webmail, so as part of my ongoing investigation into the matter, I created a new tag in Thunderbird, and as predicted, it didn't show up in my Zimbra webmail. So I tried creating the Zimbra webmail version of the tag myself, however, upon trying to do so, I received the following error:

msg - exceeded limit of 63 tags
code - mail.TOO_MANY_TAGS
method - ZmCsfeCommand.prototype.invoke
detail - soap:Sender
data - [object Object]

I was not aware that there was a limit on the number of tags one could have. In fact, in the "Using tags to classify mail messages" help page, it specifically says "You can create as many tags as you want."

I searched my account options for a way to remove the limit on the number of tags but didn't see anything. Is there an option in the administrative options to remove this limit? Or maybe a work around by playing with files on the server?

Thanks again,

[phoenix]

You might want to vote on this bug: Bug 1810 – figure out how to have >63 tags

[zpellman]

phoenix,

Thanks. Glad to know it's already being worked on.