[MlMt] Handling “[Gmail]/All Mail” gracefully

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

Hi MailMate users,

I recently wrote a [blog 
post](http://blog.freron.com/2013/mavericks-gmail-apple-mail-and-mailmate/) 
about how an IMAP email client can handle the non-standard IMAP used by 
Google (Gimap). I wrote it because Apple Mail in Mavericks now tries to 
handle it gracefully, but their solution seems to have a lot of 
side-effects.

This is certainly not an unsolvable problem, but the challenge for me 
has been to solve it without creating a Gmail client instead of an IMAP 
client. Read the blog post for the details of the problem. I just wanted 
to notify any adventurous users that the latest test version of MailMate 
also includes an implementation of the theoretical solution for the 
“[Gmail]/All Mail” mailbox described in the blog post.

The test version also enables the experimental support for the so-called 
IMAP Condstore extension by default. This makes the Gmail workaround 
more efficient.

After MailMate has updated then edit your Gmail account and click 
“Edit Subscriptions”. Locate “[Gmail]/All Mail” and subscribe.

The expected result is a “[Gmail]/All Mail” mailbox which contains 
all messages *not* in any of the other subscribed mailboxes. In other 
words, still no duplicate messages in MailMate.

The goal is to allow “[Gmail]/All Mail” to be subscribed by default 
(it is still unsubscribed by default). It can then probably also be used 
as the designated “Archive” folder for Gmail accounts making 
MailMate behave as most users probably expect.

I hope this makes sense. It's a tricky problem, but the goal is to make 
it seem simple. Now, the user only has to tell MailMate which Gmail 
labels should be interpreted as tags.

Let me know if you try this feature (whether or not it works for you).

-- 
Benny
http://freron.com/crowdfund2014
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