[MlMt] Gmail tag syncing

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-02-02 at 22:46:57 UTC-0500 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:46:57 -0800)
 devynosborne at gmail.com <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Hm, I take that back. At some point today, the tag removal was properly synced. It just didn’t do it right away, even after a manual sync. Maybe it waited for some sort of mailbox refresh?

Webmail+IMAP systems like GMail's are likely to have transient synchronization issues because the web and IMAP interfaces each have to work with their own versions of the mailstore in conflicting ways that are reconciled behind the scenes literally when you're not looking: changes in one mailfolder from one client other than adding or purging messages are likely to not be visible in another client while it has that folder open, and some changes (like purging messages marked as deleted) may only be done 'for real' when a client switches to a different folder.

And at the scale of GMail, they may well also have simple replication delays because different clients are attaching to different actual machines which might be on opposite sides of the planet (in principle) and nothing is actually instantaneous (except maybe neutrino type transitions...) so the mailstore is eventually consistent in all views.


> On 2 Feb 2024, at 12:10, devynosborne at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Does MM sync tags/labels with Gmail after the first download? That doesn’t seem to be happening for me, though I could be missing something easy!
>>
>> For example, today I received an email which Gmail erroneously tagged/labelled as Important. MM downloaded it. I then went to Gmail in Safari and untagged the message (I used Safari out of habit, though I guess I could do this within MM). However, after sync, MM still shows the email with the Important tag.
>>
>> I have the Important tag properly set up / synced within MM, per the instructions, though again, could be missing something.
>>
>> Should I use MM to untag? Would that help? I occasionally need to use Gmail to do so, for example, on my phone (though I also just started testing Preside on iOS).
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Devyn
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