For gmail how do you setup notmuch mail ?...

[Bhaskara Marthi]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:15:59 -0000, Patrick Totzke <
> patricktotzke at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Alex Botero-Lowry (2012-02-08 08:24:51)
> > >    I'm using a similar setup.  An inconvenience with the setup is that
> I have
> > >    various filters in gmail that filter, e.g., mailing list mails by
> skipping
> > >    the gmail inbox and applying specific tags. ...
> > >    Ideally, I'd like a view in notmuch that shows the same messages as
> the
> > >    gmail inbox.  Is there a way to accomplish this?
> > >    - b
> >
> > You could sync every subfolder *but* "All Mail" instead of just this
> > folder: Gmail tags are available as imap folders. You can then tune
> > your tagging filters to sort by folder: queries.
>
>
> That's a good alternative only if you have relatively few messages that
> have many gmail labels assigned to them. Otherwise you end up syncing
> the same messages many times through many IMAP folders (each
> corresponding to one label).
>
> Also, this requires that every message ends up with some label, which is
not true for me.


> My approach is basically to reproduce the gmail filters as saved
> searches in emacs. The messages need not have tags. YMMV.
>

Hmm ok, I suppose setting up tagging rules corresponding to gmail filters
is a one-time effort.  I think I'll go with that.
- Bhaskara


> Jani.
>
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