[MlMt] Gmail tag syncing

[Devyn Osborne]

That's interesting! It makes sense. Thanks!

On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 7:31 AM Bill Cole <
mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:

> 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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