Better Gmail handling by not using Notmuch tags

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 08:15:30 PDT 2012


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jeremy Nickurak
<not-much at trk.nickurak.ca> wrote:
> Gmail doesn't have folders, of course, it has labels, which are
> approximately equivalent to notmuch tags. The key difference being that a
> message can only be in one folder, but it can have multiple tags/labels.

Gmail exports its labels as IMAP folders: an email with multiple
labels will be duplicated in multiple folders (one per label). That's
why I'm asking if it would be possible to manupale folders from
Notmuch instead of tags.

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Damien Cassou
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