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Actually this is what creates the mess. If gmail had exported labels as flags an IMAP client should be able to re-implement the gmail folders. EDIT: The mess I

by jeltz 14y ago

Actually this is what creates the mess. If gmail had exported labels as flags an IMAP client should be able to re-implement the gmail folders. EDIT: The mess I refer to is that your emails will be duplicated if they have multiple labels. EDIT2: Hmm, actually I am not sure how good the support for custom IMAP flags is.

ygra 14y ago
(Side note: It's been a few years since I looked through the specs and maybe I missed something) IMAP flags are sadly severely lacking in what they can represent. The character set isn't even enough for unmodified UTF-7 (Punycode could work, but only for one-word tags) which renders them useless for user-chosen labels so few mail clients actually bother supporting them in that way. Thunderbird uses \label1 through \label5 but the names that are displayed in the UI are stored on each computer separately so you'd have to set up the labels you use on each machine (which kinda defies the purpose of storing that on the server). And short of using a »label configuration mail« on the server I don't see an easy way of supporting them completely server-side. I'd love to completely forego folders and use tags/labels/flags/whatever they're called exclusively but last I looked IMAP wasn't able to support that.