Better Gmail handling by not using Notmuch tags
Justus Winter
4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Fri Sep 14 05:05:47 PDT 2012
Quoting Damien Cassou (2012-09-13 17:15:30)
> 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.
Daniel Kreischer contributed a feature to afew called mailmover that
allows one to specify a mapping between IMAP folders and notmuch tags
and move mails accordingly.
Justus
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