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<p dir="auto">On 2 Jul 2017, at 19:32, Topher Buck wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">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>
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<p dir="auto">No, you can use “SOURCES” if you like. Moving messages can be done using drag'n'drop or the “Move to Mailbox” window (⌥⌘T).</p>
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<p dir="auto">The Organize section of the MM manual [<a href="https://manual.mailmate-app.com/organize" style="color:#777">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>
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<p dir="auto">That's ordinary IMAP mailboxes. For a Gmail account then that's the same thing as a label. This also means that the “Mailbox ▸ New IMAP Mailbox” is also how you create Gmail labels in MailMate. I think this might be your “missing piece” to understand how this works.</p>
<p dir="auto">When mapping a tag in MailMate to a Gmail label then MailMate ignores the corresponding Gmail IMAP mailbox. Instead, it shows a tag for any messages located in this mailbox (which requires the message to also be present in another mailbox). </p>
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<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>
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<p dir="auto">Any existing Gmail mailboxes should already be in MailMate under SOURCES within the Gmail account. New Gmail labels can be created as I described above: “Mailbox ▸ New IMAP Mailbox”. These should show up in the Gmail web interface.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I tried quitting MM, editing the Mailboxes.plist file to add an entry for a new mailbox, and then restarting MM, ...</p>
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<p dir="auto">Never do that. I <em>think</em> it's just going to be ignored/removed.</p>
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<p dir="auto">, 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:#777">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>
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<p dir="auto">This is related to smart mailboxes in the MAILBOXES part of mailbox list. This is not where Gmail mailboxes are found.</p>
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<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?</p>
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<p dir="auto">No.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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>
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<p dir="auto">You certainly should not abandon your current mailbox structure. It should work fine in MailMate as long as you can live with having them under SOURCES.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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