[MlMt] Gmail All Mail

[Edward Thome]

On 25 May 2020, at 9:42, Evan M Silberman wrote:

> I am using Mailmate with two separate Gmail accounts. However, when I
> archive my email using MailMate, instead of going to Gmail's defacto 
> "All
> Mail" folder it goes to a new folder, "Gmail/Archive." How do I 
> resolve
> this so all archived email goes to Gmail's "All Mail" Folder?
>

Hello!
I think that the answer to your question is at the bottom of this page:

https://manual.mailmate-app.com/account_setup#gmail

In particular:

**How to configure MailMate**
If you click “Edit Subscriptions” in the IMAP account editor for a 
Gmail account then you might notice that “[Gmail]/Starred” and 
“[Gmail]/Important” are unsubscribed. It is important to keep it 
that way. The starred emails are equivalent to flagged emails. If you 
need the “Important” emails then you must setup a tag in MailMate to 
match the special \Important Gmail label.

The “[Gmail]/All Mail” mailbox might also be unsubscribed, but this 
is optional. If you don’t subscribe to it then there’s is likely 
going to be emails on the server which do not appear in MailMate. If you 
do subscribe to it then MailMate will do its best to only synchronize 
the emails which do not exist in any of your other Gmail mailboxes (in 
order to avoid duplicates in MailMate). It’ll also be used as your 
“Archive” mailbox when it is subscribed. Otherwise, a new mailbox 
named “[Gmail]/Archive” is created and used as the archive mailbox.

Here comes the important part. Gmail labels falls into two categories:

A label used as a folder: This kind of label is just like a standard 
IMAP mailbox. Labelling a message in Gmail is equivalent to moving it to 
a mailbox in MailMate. This is how Gmail labels are handled in MailMate 
by default. For example, you might like to move a message from the Inbox 
to a mailbox named “Receipts”.
A label used as a tag: This is equivalent to flagging/starring/tagging a 
message. The message is not moved, but it is marked in order to be more 
easily found when searching or to be part of some virtual mailbox. 
MailMate must explicitly be told about this kind of label in the Tags 
preferences pane.
If you go to the Tags preferences pane in MailMate (⌘,) then notice 
the “Gmail Label” column. This can be used to tell MailMate to 
consider some tag name to be equivalent to a specific Gmail label. This 
has the following consequences:

It is no longer considered to be an IMAP mailbox and it’ll disappear 
from the list of mailboxes in MailMate. This is implicitly how 
synchronizing duplicates are avoided in MailMate.
Whenever you tag an email in MailMate then its corresponding Gmail label 
is also applied. This means it’ll show up with this label in the Gmail 
web interface.
Whenever a Gmail label is applied via webmail then MailMate detects it 
and makes sure it shows up with the corresponding tag.
If moving a message to a non-Gmail IMAP server then it keeps its IMAP 
keyword and thereby its tag in MailMate.
The end result of all this is that Gmail accounts and IMAP accounts can 
nicely co-exist without MailMate becoming a Gmail email client instead 
of an IMAP email client. You must subscribe to “[Gmail]/All Mail” 
for this to work when the labelled emails do not exist in any other 
mailboxes.

Sincerely,
Ed
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