[MlMt] Trying to understand tags/folders for GMail

[Jonathan Clark]

Regards,

-- Jonathan

On 26 May 2014, at 17:00, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com wrote:

> FromBenny Kjær Nielsen <mailinglist at freron.com>
> ToMailMate Users <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> Cc
> Bcc
> SubjectRe: [MlMt] Trying to understand tags/folders for GMail
> Date26 May 2014 12:54
>
> On 24 May 2014, at 0:38, Jonathan Clark wrote:
>> I also have "_todo" and "_waiting" folders that I also often
>> copy messages to alongside the other folder.
>> These are what I would consider to be labels/tags/flags/keywords. 
>> These messages have a primary location and are then 
>> labelled/tagged/... as a way to categorize them beyond that primary 
>> location.I'm guessing that I should be moving the folders "_todo" and 
>> "_waiting" to be tags, leaving the others as folders?

> Benny replied:
> Yes, you can create the tags “ToDo” and “Waiting” in MailMate 
> and then make sure that they are mapped to your existing Gmail labels 
> “_todo” and “_waiting”.
>> But what are the practical benefits of this?
> If you do the above then the IMAP mailboxes in MailMate named 
> “_todo” and “_waiting” should disappear when the account is 
> synchronized (you might need to explicitly do that). Any messages with 
> these labels are instead going to appear as tagged in MailMate (with 
> ToDo and Waiting). You should create smart mailboxes with, for 
> example, the condition: “Tags/Keywords” include “ToDo”.
>
> 1. It's about avoiding duplicate messages. In your current setup, a 
> message located in both “_todo” and in one of your other mailboxes 
> is going to be fetched and stored twice by MailMate.
> 2. It's about treating labels as tags. If something is used as a label 
> (and not a mailbox) then this is also how it should be used in 
> MailMate. In MailMate it is known as tags, but it's the same thing. 
> Using the “T” shortcut you can easily add/remove your labels/tags.
> 3. It's about migration. If you ever need to move messages from Gmail 
> to some other IMAP server (or the other way) then tags are preserved.

Having formed a "_todo" tag, I have gone back and used it to tag a 
number of the messages in the _todo folder, and I have synchronised and 
re-started the app. But the "_todo" folder still shows. Am I missing 
something?

And another issue: when I'm away from the Mac, I will use a variety of 
iOS apps to triage mail. This includes filing to the _todo folder. When 
I do this it doesn't seem to add the _todo tag. Is this related to the 
first issue? Is there a way to get this tagging working in iOS?

Thanks,

Jonathan
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