On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 07:22 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
I've never used evolution, but decided to try it. This time speed to sync was much more acceptable. But there is one barrier to using evolution over gmail web interface. Gmail sorts mail automatically into "categories", distinct from the mail folders that you can manually create. I find these categories just too useful, and they are not reflected into imap folders. Without this sorting, my inbox is too cluttered with e.g., Promotions, which I would normally not bother with when using gmail/web.
Although I haven't looked closely at this, I think the same is going to happen with any desktop MUA, given that Gmail implements this via its own non-standard "magic". If they used IMAP labels it could perhaps be made to work, but I don't think they do.
In practice, I use Evo and the Web interface for different things, e.g. Gmail doesn't handle mailing lists well.
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