Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

[Peter Tynan <peter.tynan@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Petrus Validus wrote:

> > Get away from the web interface.  Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use
> > Google's IMAPs interface.
>
> I use Evolution and Mutt with Google's IMAP interface.  It works nicely
> but I've noticed this quirky behavior when using a client via IMAP.  My
> messages appear in multiple places at the same time.
>
> For instance I'll have new mail display in Inbox, All Mail (where
> *everything* is), and then in the individual labels (or folders).
> Pretty funky.  At first I just thought it was an Evolution thing,
> but I've tested it with Outlook 2003, Thunderbird, and Mutt.  I am
> assuming that each message isn't actually being delivered three times
> and just listed in different folders within the account.
>
> Is there a way for this to be disabled and subsequently have
> messages be displayed in their specific folders...or is this just how
> Gmail works?

Although the powerful filtering abilities of Pine/Alpine was one of the 
things that attracted me to it that was over a decade ago, today I let 
gmail do the filtering...

'All Mail' - I'm not subscribed to this (imap?) folder and by its nature 
there is not a lot you do to keep mail out of it.

'Inbox' - one of the options when creating a gmail filter (to apply a 
tag/move to imap folder) is for the message to be archived (i.e. skip the 
Inbox) - I'm thinking this is the option you are looking for?


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