[MlMt] Tags/Keywords and Gmail Labels

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 9 Sep 2016, at 9:03, Jim McCarty wrote:

> While playing around with tags/keywords and Gmail labels, I found that 
> applying a label to a group of messages in a folder (22 of them, there 
> are 3 in sent messages that are not selected), then adding the Gmail 
> Label to the tag preference entry, all of the emails disappear. I 
> can't find them using tags or searching for the prefix applied to the 
> subject of all the list emails. Removing the Gmail label from the tag 
> entry allows them to be found again.
>
> If I do this over and over, I get a couple different results. 
> Sometimes after applying the tag and then adding the Gmail label,

Setting the label server side?

> the smart mailbox I have set to look for the tag shows messages that 
> are in the sent folder (the 3 messages) but none of the messages I 
> selected and added the label to. When I remove the Gmail Label from 
> the tag preference entry, the messages reappear but sometimes they no 
> longer have the tag/keyword attached, sometimes they do.
>
> I did one run where I made sure only the 22 messages had the tag and 
> the 3 sent messages did not but adding the Gmail label to the tag 
> preference prevented access to the 22 messages and showed the 3 sent 
> messages as having the tag applied (only the 22 messages showed in the 
> smart mailbox prior).
>
> I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or there's some kind of bug 
> in the app. I would appreciate if someone else could try these steps 
> and see if they get similar results or can point out something I'm 
> missing.

You have probably found some bug(s). I don't think changing Gmail label 
mappings in the Tags preferences pane is 100% robust. It might some 
times require relaunching MailMate before the changes are updated. Also, 
it might take some time before changes done server side propagate to 
MailMate. It's all a bit tricky to get to work properly, especially 
because “[Gmail]/All Mail” is involved.

Debugging is easier if you can describe as simple steps as possible to 
reproduce an issue with a single message (if possible). Then I can try 
to reproduce it.

-- 
Benny