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I understand your point, but gmail labels are such a good idea that Thunderbird should implement them as a native feature (even perhaps proposing it as extensio

I understand your point, but gmail labels are such a good idea that Thunderbird should implement them as a native feature (even perhaps proposing it as extension of IMAP standard). Also think Thunderbird should implement JMAP (Fastmail standard) and/or Google RESTful gmail API because these are open standards worth supporting. Another feature that I would like to see more fully supported in Thunderbird (through better synchronization with mail provider server back-end) is editing emails, to include most importantly the ability to remove bulky attachments without losing email text or touching important meta-data. Unfortunately gmail treats each email as an immutable object, and the hacks that have been suggested to date to work around this limitation have all been clunky at best.

bonzini 7y ago
There's no need for an IMAP extension; there's already tags, but Thunderbird is pretty much the only mail agent that has some kind of support for IMAP tags. Google uses the folder hack in part because support for tags is so bad. However it would be nice if Google supported both folders and tags.
omnimus 7y ago
It seems like it's other way around. There is IMAP spec for keywords https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5788 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5788 gmail just never implemented it (for whatever reason the spec is probably bad). I am afraid when we start adding gmail specific features at certain point google makes compatibility breaking change and becomes email. The people not using gmail will have to start because of network effect and email died.