Re: Consternation resulting from trying to use Apple Mail as a Gmail IMAP Client
Re: Consternation resulting from trying to use Apple Mail as a Gmail IMAP Client
- Subject: Re: Consternation resulting from trying to use Apple Mail as a Gmail IMAP Client
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:57:28 -0400
Let's look at this from the GMail perspective, ignoring IMAP for a moment.
GMail doesn't have folders. All your mail goes in one big bucket.
You're not supposed to sort it; the theory is that you can always use
the search functionality to find any message you need, especially
since they're automatically grouped into threads ("conversations") so
finding any message in a thread gives you all of them.
It does have labels, which you can use much the same way as folders,
except that they don't nest into a hierarchy, and they do combine: you
can put as many labels as you like on a message, independently of each
other.
Now, from the IMAP viewpoint, see
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657 for how
things map.
It's true that all your mail goes into the "All Mail" folder, and that
"moving" a message into a different "folder" just results in a label
being applied. But my understanding (as a GMail user who hasn't tried
to use it via IMAP), the "All Mail" folder is *not* your Inbox. All
the messages in your GMail Inbox get the "Inbox" label and so show up
in an IMAP folder named "Inbox". Moving messages out of the Inbox and
into another folder should remove that label, causing the message to
disappear from your IMAP Inbox as well.
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