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

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

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Petrus Validus wrote:

> > > I interpret the "if used correctly" bit to mean "using the GMail web
> > > interface, not a 3rd party client such as Evolution or Mutt."  Am I
> > > correct in this interpretation?
> >
> > No, I mean, AFAICT, IMAP was not designed for this paradigm (same
> > message present in different folders/tags/views/whatever).
>
> I've also come to that conclusion.  I think we're saying the same thing
> just different words (maybe?).  It looks like to me this paradigm was
> designed for use on Gmail's own interface and that's it.
>
> > Mutt with the correct macros and folder-hooks can be bent into adapting
> > to Gmail's style, mostly...
>
> I'm still new to Mutt so I will have to look into this much further, not
> to mention doing some manual reading.
>
> > Unless I'm missing something it does *not* do what I want, but I worked
> > around it with mutt macros (see my other post).
>
> Heh...I noticed that too.  I'll take a look at your post.

With the google labs thing, the delete/move to bin options only work if 
the message is only in a single IMAP folder thus it will never work if you 
are subscribed to the "All Mail" folder (unless it is only in the all mail 
folder), if you go to the labels section in the GMail settings you can 
unsubscribed "All Mail" as an IMAP folder.


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