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Originally Posted by NumberSix
I wonder if this difference comes from using "folders" rather than "labels"...
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It seems that the difference between "folders" and "labels" in Fastmail is superficial: slight differences in the way the user interacts with the same infrastructure.
The infra structure seems to be a folder tree that contains pointers to messages. In the the documentations they say that the difference is that multiple labels can be applied to one message, but the same is true for folders: you can file a message in multiple folders: just drag several folders from the folder tree onto the message, or drag the message to an additional folder while holding the alt key (in the past this made a copy of the message in another folders, that was independent of the original copy. Now it's the same message in two or several folders: if you delete an attachment from the "copy" in one folder then it is deleted from all copies. Some actions might apply only to the "copy" within one folder (I haven't tested this) but if so, it must be applied not to the message but rather to the pointer to the message).