idea - (dream?) - tagging based on gmail folders - offlineimap, notmuch or both together?

[Alex Botero-Lowry]

I've implemented a bi-directional notmuch/gmail sync. It does a full
sync fine, but doesn't do partial syncs at all, and it's too slow to
run a full sync over and over again. I've started working on it again
recently, trying to speed up the full sync process by adding
multiprocessing. The source is at
http://alexbl.net/~alexbl/imapsync.py (older version but the logic
itself hasn't changed), if you're interested in working on it.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Rainer M Krug <R.M.Krug at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
>
> I am dreaming again (necessary from time to time...)
>
> I am using offlineimap and notmuch. With offlineimap I sync the "all mail" folder only and with
> notmuch I do the indexing for searching (my normanl mail client is still thunderbird...).
>
> I thought: When I am syncing "all mail" with offlineimap, all my folder (tags) from gmail are
> gone. To avoid this, I could sync all folders, but that would multiply the amound I need to sync
> and likely cause problems.
>
> But what about notmuch could tag my mails based on the gmail folders / tags?
>
> That would be brilliant. Would this be possible? *Is* it possible? I mean - tags in notmuch and in
> gmail - how to sync them? Or would this be a task for offlineimap?
>
> I just know this would be a brilliant solution for using gmail "locally" and, if on the road, from
> the web interface or smartphone.
>
> Any ideas on how to achieve this? Would this be a task for offlineimap, notmuch or a combination
> of both?
>
> Cheers and thanks for a your work on notmuch,
>
> Rainer
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