[MlMt] How to specify Gmail's Important tag?

[Jonathan Clark]

On 18 Nov 2013, at 22:18, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

>> And to add to this, I went into Gmail settings, and discovered that 
>> the Important label wasn't being published over IMAP. I'd changed 
>> that setting ages ago for reasons I now can't remember. However, 
>> after a re-start or two, MailMate doesn't seem to be showing the 
>> "Important" label under Gmail source or [Gmail] folder.
>
> Yes, MailMate ignores it because it leads to duplicates messages.
>
>> (And it has picked up other label changes I made in Gmail settings at 
>> the same time.) More and more curious ...
>
> The “Important” label is a special case. Its Gmail label name 
> should, in theory, be “[Gmail]/Important”, but it isn't. It's 
> “\Important” instead.
>
> So, you should define a tag named Important. It could then use 
> `Important` as IMAP keyword as well, but the Gmail label must be 
> `\Important`.

Brilliant! That works for new messages ...

> There seems to be a problem with MailMate picking up this change. I 
> had to select messages and use “Message ▸ Reset…” to make 
> MailMate pick up the label (as a tag). You might want to just remove 
> the account and re-add it if it's not a big account.

... and for any I "Message ▸ Reset ..."

Many thanks,

-- Jonathan
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