Re: Problem splitting (nnimap-inbox "[Gmail]/Alle Nachrichten")

[Lars-Johan Liman]

(At the risk of being a besserwisser ... apologies in advance.)

Could your problem stem from what I have been told and believe to be
true, that Gmail doesn't have the concept of "mailboxes" or "folders"?

AFAIK, your mail in Gmail is just one big pool off messages, to which
Gmail assigns tags. It will tag the messages that you consider to be in
your folder "inbox" with the tag "inbox", and the ones in your folder
"work" with the tag "work".

When you access your mail using IMAP (which, as a protocol, relies on
the concept of mail folders) and you ask to have your "work" folder
listed, it will filter out the messages with the tag "work" and show
them to you, but they are still in the big pool.

So, to Gmail, a "folder" is just "a filtered view of the pool, according
to some combination of tags".

With this as background, is your problem possible to explain?

                                Best regards,
                                  /Lars-Johan Liman

bobnewell@bobnewell.net 2021-01-17 18:53 [-1000]:
> Aloha,

> If I understand what you're saying correctly, this is a quirk
> (feature?) of gmail. EVERYTHING (except Trash and Spam) is
> ALWAYS in the "All Mail" folder. You can apply labels all you
> wish and it will never, ever go out of "All Mail" unless you
> delete it altogether by sending to Trash or Spam.

> What I do is simply leave it alone. There is no harm done at
> all.

> In fact I leverage it to my advantage when creating org-mode
> links to a mail item. I use an advising function to ensure
> that the link points to the "All Mail" entry --- then no
> matter how I relabel the mail item, the org-mode link will
> always work (unless the mail is moved to Trash or Spam).

> I have often thought about moving away from Gmail but to me
> the All Mail concept is a killer feature.

> -- 
> Bob Newell
> Honolulu, Hawai`i

> - Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB