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<p dir="auto">Giovanni et al.,</p>
<p dir="auto">Forgive me for replying to a thread that is now more than two years old, but I’m still struggling with the question of how best to use MailMate with Gmail labels.</p>
<p dir="auto">In this case, I don’t understand Giovanni’s advice (see below) to “treat them [Gmail labels] as folders”—keeping in mind, of course, the “no multiple labels per message” admonition. As I understand it, in MM, folder = mailbox, and this would suggest that one would create MM mailboxes corresponding to one’s Gmail labels. But—unless I’m really missing something—there is no way to create mailboxes in MM other than smart mailboxes), so there’s no way to move a message from my inbox to another mailbox, is there? <em>Unless</em> I include the mailboxes under SOURCES, but I thought the idea was not to use those as part of one’s typical workflow.</p>
<p dir="auto">The Organize section of the MM manual [<a href="https://manual.mailmate-app.com/organize" style="color:#3983C4">https://manual.mailmate-app.com/organize</a>] states, “MailMate supports 3 kinds of mailboxes…”, but it then describes only two: [1] Standard Mailboxes (Inbox, Drafts, Sent Messages, Junk, and Deleted Messages) and [2] Smart Mailboxes. What’s the third kind? Custom, but not smart, seems like the obvious option; is that just wishful thinking on my part?</p>
<p dir="auto">Benny very kindly responded to my recent question about Gmail labels and MM tags, so, assuming I understand correctly, I know that I should not map MM tags to Gmail labels but should use MM mailboxes for Gmail labels (and use tags within MM), and that makes sense to me, but only if I can create MM mailboxes and map them to my existing Gmail labels/folders.</p>
<p dir="auto">I tried quitting MM, editing the Mailboxes.plist file to add an entry for a new mailbox, and then restarting MM, but that didn’t have any obvious effect other than reordering the mailboxes in the left panel in MM. Then I found this entry in the MM lists archive: <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/mailmate@lists.freron.com/msg03660.html" style="color:#3983C4">https://www.mail-archive.com/mailmate@lists.freron.com/msg03660.html</a> and tried copying and renaming the “Examples” mailbox. That worked, but I don’t know how to map it to a Gmail label, nor can I even move existing messages from my Inbox to the new mailbox, so it’s not clear that I have actually accomplished anything.</p>
<p dir="auto">Is the only option in MM to use tags to organize messages and move everything I want to save to the Archive folder? I could probably live with that, but I would be awfully nice not to abandon all my Gmail labels, and I have not gotten the clear sense that this is necessary (put another way, I still have the impression, based on what I have heard from Benny and read in the archive, that it <em>is</em> possible to create and use MM mailboxes corresponding to Gmail labels).</p>
<p dir="auto">Can anyone enlighten me?</p>
<p dir="auto">Thank you very much,</p>
<p dir="auto">/topher</p>
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<p dir="auto">Giovanni Lanzani Fri, 03 Apr 2015 05:00:08 -0700</p>
<p dir="auto">On 3 Apr 2015, at 13:01, Olivier Martin wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Hello there,</p>
<p dir="auto">The question must have been asked a thousand times : it's about gmail and labels...</p>
<p dir="auto">As I understand it, they are mostly an IMAP hack and break many many clients. So... I should probably remove them, but I have like 8 years of labelling history so it's kind of a harsh decision to make. I could create Smart mailboxes I guess but I like the idea of organising my mails with them.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm curious how you guys deal with gmail, no labels <strong>at all</strong> ?</p>
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<p dir="auto">I just treat them as folders: they can be nested, but that's it (i.e. no multiple labels per message).</p>
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