[MlMt] gmail folder's names

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 6 Jun 2014, at 20:46, Paula R. T. Coelho wrote:

> i use two gmail accounts with mailmate (and a real IMAP account).
>
> i noticed one of the google accounts have folders names as "usual", 
> say [Gmail]/Archive, [Gmail]/Trash etc, but the other account (several 
> years older) have folders like [Google Mail]/Archive, [Google 
> Mail]/Trash etc.
>
> anyone knows why?

Not really, but I can participate in pure speculation. I know that Gmail 
has been named Google Mail in some countries and a Google search reveals 
[the following](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/159001?hl=en):

* *“After Gmail first launched, Google changed the name of its webmail 
service in the United Kingdom and Germany to "Google Mail" due to legal 
disputes around the use of the Gmail trademark. Those conflicts have 
been terminated, so we are changing the name back to Gmail, and offering 
@gmail.com addresses to all Google Mail. Plus, it's shorter and easier 
to type this way.”*

> it doesn't bother me, but i'm curious how it came to be like this, 
> [Gmail] vs [Google
> Mail] folder names...

IMAP could be one of the primary reasons that they are not renaming 
“Google Mail” to “Gmail” in existing accounts. It's very 
inefficient to rename IMAP mailboxes since it's going to be handled as a 
deleted mailbox and a new mailbox by offline IMAP clients like MailMate. 
Existing filters/rules would also need to be updated.

-- 
Benny
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