[MlMt] Tags / Label funkyness with Gmail

[Joshua Kehn]

Lovely.

Looks like it's working now, thanks!

--jk

On 6 Jan 2014, at 4:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 6 Jan 2014, at 6:05, Joshua Kehn wrote:
>
>> I'm having an issue creating new tags or labels. Currently my gmail 
>> accounts return this:
>>
>> S: H11 BAD Invalid Arguments: Label name is not allowed: todos
>> Error: Server response: “H11 BAD Invalid Arguments: Label name is 
>> not allowed: todos”.
>>
>> Here's how I've setup tags: http://l.kehn.io/image/031o0k112x0i
>>
>> That \ before the IMAP keyword is something I tried because I saw 
>> other keywords had that. I'm not exactly a power IMAP user yet so I 
>> will be making some mistakes here.
>
> Don't use the `\`. This is reserved for standard-defined IMAP 
> keywords.
>
>> Question is, why is that label name not allowed, why isn't it using 
>> the Gmail label instead, and what can I do to fix this?
>
> I just tried with a label named “todomail” and that was not a 
> problem. Then I tried “todos” and that failed just like it did for 
> you. Apparently Gmail disallows certain label names. It would be nice 
> if that was documented somewhere...
>
> Ah, Google to the rescue (kind of ironic). I found this 
> [link](http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-11-01-n68.html). Apparently 
> “todos” means “All Mail” in Spanish/Portuguese... I guess that 
> provides an implicit list of all illegal Gmail label names: Any 
> standard Gmail mailbox name in any language supported by Gmail. 
> Theoretically, this means they cannot add any new languages without 
> making some existing mailbox names illegal. I'm sure someone at Google 
> has regretted this design decision (although I understand their 
> reasoning).
>
> The best way to create a label might be to create it using Gmail on 
> the web. I assume any illegal label names are then immediately 
> rejected.
>
> You may want to enable the “Raw Flags” column in the messages 
> outline to see what has been assigned to your messages while 
> experimenting.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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