Re: Problem splitting (nnimap-inbox "[Gmail]/Alle Nachrichten")

[Lars-Johan Liman]

Ah. Yes, I can see that that can create problems.

I use ... err ... correction: the company I work for in my $dayjob ...
uses Gmail. It's not my choice and I'm not a fan in any way, but I
manage to live with it. I only use it as a store-and-forward IMAP
respository. I do _nothing_ in Gmail. I download everything to my Gnus
machine and split the mail into folders there. Gmail knows nothing about
my folders. It just stores my mail until I download it. This may or may
not work for others.

                                Cheers,
                                  /Liman

bobnewell@bobnewell.net 2021-01-18 08:17 [-1000]:
> You are 100% right, I believe. Gmail pretends to have folders
> but really doesn't, it just has labels. The issue for me is
> how this is reflected in the gnus structure, which sees things
> as folders. So I treat "All Mail" as a folder which I know
> will contain everything, and do org-mode links to All Mail
> rather than to some specific pseudo-folder (which is really a
> label).

> This must be the original poster's problem. He tries to remove
> the "All Mail" label. This gets reflected locally in gnus
> until his next update at which time the All Mail label returns
> because gmail will never take it away until the mail is
> actually deleted.

> -- 
> Bob Newell
> Honolulu, Hawai`i

> - Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB