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No one wants to do POP3 in 2023. And Gmails IMAP set up is weird. A labeling system being represented as folders is not a great experience.
by WirelessGigabit 4y ago
No one wants to do POP3 in 2023. And Gmails IMAP set up is weird. A labeling system being represented as folders is not a great experience.
- ghusto 4y agoI've been using IMAP for Gmail since forever, and it's ... fine? I don't know what you find weird about it?
- WirelessGigabit 4y agoIf you put 2 labels on an email, then it is represented twice over IMAP. IMAP is folder based, not label based. And what this means is that if you remove an email from a folder, you don't actually remove it completely, you just remove the label, and the email continues to exist elsewhere. (I might be wrong about this behavior: the behavior of deleting an email over IMAP depends on whether it has labels left or not). Update: good read about how the system doesn't behave like you think it does https://www.tomscott.com/fix-gmail-labels-threads/ https://www.tomscott.com/fix-gmail-labels-threads/
- ghusto 4y agoYeah I was aware they're doing some black-box stuff to make it work, but wasn't too fussed as long as it did. I have the issue you describe with ProtonMail's labelling, but not Gmail's.