On 2017-06-24 01:21, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
And google's capabilities are very good for that even if you NEVER read your mail at the web browser.
When I looked at it, gmail sorted mail using labels, but not into different folders. Has this changed, or is there some trick?
It still does that, but for instance when I receive a list email I have the filter rule remove the inbox label and add a opensuse label.
Then with a IMAP based client I can pull down the opensuse label as a folder. In fact that always happens. From IMAPs perspective labels are folders.
Ah! I see. I do not remove the Inbox label, so when I look via imap at the inbox I see them all - which happens to suit me, but now I understand why it happens :-)
The only time it gets confusing is gmail allows a single email to have multiple labels. It is easy to end up with duplicate emails in your IMAP client.
Indeed!
I don't know how to resolve that as it has been a few years since I worked with Thunderbird/Gmail.
For Thunderbird it is probably best to retrieve all and sort locally. In fact, trying to open my "opensuse" label takes ages. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)