I see new (for me) information about Gmail structure :-)

Am Montag, den 18.04.2016, 12:24 +0200 schrieb Milan Crha:
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> 
> Partly related, with respect of the GMail Sent folder setting, this one
> is skipped since the evolution-data-server 3.20.1. I noticed in the
> GMail web interface that they show there [Imap]/Drafts and [Imap]/Sent
> "folders", thus it seems to me that they distinguish between the two
> being done through the web UI and through the IMAP interface. That is,
> the right real folders in the IMAP should be /Drafts and /Sent, rather
> than [Gmail]/Drafts and [Gmail]/Sent. I setup my IMAP GMail account to
> use the real /Sent folder on the server, then I sent the message. The
> Web UI shows the message both in the [Imap]/Sent and /Sent folders, but
> in each only once. Furthermore, the later (/Sent) shows the message
> with the "[Imap]/Sent" tag, thus it seems to me that the /Sent folder
> in the Web interface consolidates all sent messages from all folders (I
> have there shown also sent messages from the Inbox folder). The IMAP
> interface shows the sent message only in the /Sent folder, not in the
> [Gmail]/Sent folder.
> 
> My question is whether the current evolution behaviour makes it better
> for the users. The difference is only in the IMAP interface, where the
> sent messages would be split between the /Sent and [Gmail]/Sent
> folders, while the Web UI view would be still (almost) the same. I'm
> not a fan of the split views, that only adds confusion for the users,

+1

> then I'd rather not assign the /Sent folder, neither the /Drafts
> folder, in the IMAP interface, even it looks like the way the GMail
> wants the users to use it.

Is anyone interested in further discussing the topic of the odd
behaviour of Gmail accounts - as already begun in another thread -->
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2016-April/msg00070.html

I'd like to continue these lessons about Gmail here, but that would need
to bring together this thread and the one already started or start a new
one - or any other suggestions ?

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