[email protected] 2021-01-19 10:43 [+0100]: > Hihi, "besserwisser" this is a german word. Is it merged into the > english language?
LOL! So much for me trying to avoid sounding like a "better-knower"!! What a disgraceful defeat! :-) :-) There is simply no way out of this for me, is there? ;-) ;-) ;-) Lars-Johan Liman <[email protected]> writes: >> (At the risk of being a besserwisser ... apologies in advance.) >> >> Could your problem stem from what I have been told and believe to be >> true, that Gmail doesn't have the concept of "mailboxes" or "folders"? >> >> AFAIK, your mail in Gmail is just one big pool off messages, to which >> Gmail assigns tags. It will tag the messages that you consider to be in >> your folder "inbox" with the tag "inbox", and the ones in your folder >> "work" with the tag "work". >> >> When you access your mail using IMAP (which, as a protocol, relies on >> the concept of mail folders) and you ask to have your "work" folder >> listed, it will filter out the messages with the tag "work" and show >> them to you, but they are still in the big pool. >> >> So, to Gmail, a "folder" is just "a filtered view of the pool, according >> to some combination of tags". >> >> With this as background, is your problem possible to explain? > Thank you, this is explained enough for me. > BUT > my main problem is not solved with it. > As far as i understand, move a message in gnus into my local folders not > reachable in imap, have to delete this message in gmail All mail? > Am i right? > If not, perhaps i have to use another command, or another split rule, or > anything advanced? > Any idea? Sorry. Can't help you there. I haven't dealt with that problem myself, as I never "sync" with Gmail. I only download. It's a one-way transaction for me. I never delete anything in Gmail (at least not through IMAP) and I don't care what Gmail has in store. The only thing I ever do over IMAP is to download new mail. (To me it might as well have been a POP3 server - which would have made some things easier ...) _EVERYTHING_ else I do on my local machine. Yes, that means that I cannot view my folders using Gmail's web interface nor from any other IMAP client, but I don't care. I have it on my local machine, and that's where I deal with e-mail. This said, I would _like_ to delete the mail I have downloaded, but I've given up on that. It seems as Gmail doesn't follow the semantics of the IMAP protocol. I use ':fetchflag "\\Deleted"' for all my various mail sources, and that deletes the downloaded mail from the IMAP server in every case ... except Gmail. I have spent too many hours trying to figure out how to do it, but Google has alarms on your account, so if you to "too many weird things" in a given time span, you're account is locked for some time. So I gave up. It's not my personal mail, and my employer has a different view on content security than I have, so I let Google just hang on to my mail. They will delete it after 2(?) years if I dont touch it, I think. Fine. I understand that this is not everybody's cup of tea, and that YMMV. I'm just describing how I live with the situation, to offer an alternative. Cheers, /Liman _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
