On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 07:22 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a folder. In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call categories that auto-categorizes mail: inbox, social, updates, formus, promotions. This is not reflected into IMAP, all these categories are just INBOX. This is my problem, gmail auto-categorizing magic is just too useful but only available through web I/F. I _could_ write filters in theory, but gmail magic is just so much better at it.
As mentioned earlier, you can write Gmail filters that match on the categories and then apply labels (folders). I haven't done this myself but there's no impediment to doing it.
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