[MlMt] Using Gmail

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 16 May 2014, at 10:13, Gary Hull wrote:

> My impression is that MailMate doesn't deal well with Gmail by design, 
> and there's no plan to natively support Gmail.

Well, even though I dislike the design choices for Gimap (and calling it 
IMAP) I've done a lot to make it work in MailMate. A rough estimate is 
that half of the MailMate users have a Gmail account which means I don't 
really have a choice.

But I try to do it in a way such that most parts of MailMate are unaware 
of the account type (IMAP or Gmail).

> However, in the MailMate documentation there are hacks given for those 
> who must use Gmail, the first of which is "Don't use labels," the 
> second of which is "If you do you use labels use one and only one 
> label for every each and every e-mail," and the third of which is "If 
> you must use labels as tags and put more than one on each e-mail, get 
> used to a lot of duplicated e-mails, because GIMAP presents labels as 
> separate folders to connecting IMAP clients."

As stated in my previous reply I have softened this a bit. Multiple 
labels are okay if using the tags-to-labels mapping.

-- 
Benny