[MlMt] The [Gmail]/Chats label in MailMate

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 6 May 2014, at 11:44, Karl Erik Jessen wrote:

> I have enabled the [Gmail]/Chats label in IMAP, and after restarting 
> Mailmate about 3.700 items are in the [Gmail]/Chats, but sadly most om 
> them has Subject="(No Subject)" and Date Received= "not available". 
> Actually only less than 100 items has actual values in these fields.
>
> Is this Google doing "unstandardized tricks" or does MailMate have an 
> issue here?

Well, there is no standard for converting chat logs into emails. I can 
see I have the same issue with the subject header. It appears it depends 
on the correspondent. I have “Chat with X” for someone using Adium 
while I think I have an empty subject for someone using the Gmail web 
interface (but I'm not sure about that). All my chat logs have a date 
header.

In any case, you can use “Show Raw Message” (⌥⌘U) to view the 
raw message. If the message has an empty Subject header and no date then 
MailMate is behaving as expected.

It is also interesting that these messages have no `text/plain` body 
part which **is** non-standard. They have HTML which is what MailMate 
displays, but they also contain an alternative of this type:

	Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

That might be useful for any scripts analyzing chats and, in theory, 
MailMate could derive a date from its content, but that is not going to 
be a priority.

For the record, I think it's a great feature that Gmail makes chats 
available via IMAP. I  use it for searching in conversations since 
searching in Adium does not work well for me. (It would be nice though 
if Gmail was better at creating longer messages instead of many short 
messages.)

-- 
Benny
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