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Does Gmail still cause trouble with vanilla IMAP clients? I remember something about how "tags" in Gmail showed up as folders in the client, but since emails co
by minikites 9y ago
Does Gmail still cause trouble with vanilla IMAP clients? I remember something about how "tags" in Gmail showed up as folders in the client, but since emails could have multiple tags it caused lots of problems.
(I use Fastmail, an email service that's much better and standards compliant.)
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoIt does. Deleting things in an IMAP client usually means "removing the tag corresponding with that folder" in Gmail. There's a hilarious tendency for things you delete in IMAP to just be in "All Mail" with no labels in Gmail, for instance. I used to use Gmail on a Windows phone for a while, and the issues were painful. Note that FastMail is developing JMAP, a replacement standard for IMAP. And even though FastMail itself doesn't support labels, they've made sure their new standard can support Gmail's currently proprietary way of handling mail correctly. Hopefully JMAP will take off and we'll see better email clients in the future.
- shmerl 9y agoYou need to configure your client to do expunge in addition to delete.