Thanks for the detailed answers! Regards,
Dogu On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Benny Kjær Nielsen <[email protected] > wrote: > On 23 Dec 2013, at 3:23, Doug Lerner wrote: > > These are good questions and I'll do my best to answer them clearly. > > > 1. Does MailMate support conversations, as in fully expanded > conversation views (not just a list of threads)? > > No. > > > 1. Since using MailPlane I have gotten to love love love the ability > to multiple-label items. Is that possible in MailMate? > > Yes, in MailMate they are named tags and they work with most IMAP > servers. See the “Tags” preferences pane. > > If so, do they sync with Gmail labels? > > I recently implemented support for this. It is possible to map tags to > Gmail labels (in the Tags preferences pane). Doing this means that MailMate > is *not* going to fetch the corresponding IMAP mailbox. Instead the > messages (which has to be present in some other mailbox) have tags instead. > > If you want smart mailboxes to match the tags/labels then you currently > have to setup these manually. > > > 1. I also really really like labeling, moving and "go to" shortcuts in > MailPlane. For example, I can type "v" followed by however many letters I > need to find the unique characters of a label and when I select it it gets > archived in the right folder/label. Same with "g" (go to) and "l" label - > which is great for adding multiple labels, and even creating new labels on > the fly. Is that possible in MailMate? > > This would be the interface opened when hitting 'T'. Also, if smart > mailboxes are created then you can use ⌘T to go to them. You cannot “move” > to these mailboxes (⌥⌘T), but that could perhaps be a feature request (the > future rules system might also allow setting up such actions manually). > > > 1. If multiple labels are possible, how are multiple-labeled messages > supposed to appear in iOS Mail? If something is multiple-labeled, I can see > it in the multiple folders in MailPlane and Gmail, but in iOS Mail I don't > see many of the messages in the iOS IMAP folders. > > I would expect iOS Mail to show those messages in the Gmail label > mailboxes. Just like MailMate does if not mapping to tags. > > Instead I am often only > only able to find some mails I was looking for in "All Mail".l How would > that work in MailMate? > > Messages only present in All Mail are not fetched by default in MailMate. > This is because it would lead to duplicates in the past. I improved this > recently<http://blog.freron.com/2013/mavericks-gmail-apple-mail-and-mailmate/>, > but you are going to have some performance issues with that if you have > many tens of thousands of messages. This is why it's still not fetched by > MailMate by default. I'm going to look into this eventually, but I'm not > yet sure whether MailMate or Gmail is to blame. Probably both. > > To fetch All Mail you need to “Edit ▸ IMAP Account ▸ …”, then “Edit > Subscriptions”, and finally mark “All Mail” as subscribed. > > > 1. Somebody told me that multiple-labeled mails are actually > duplicated in MailMate, rather than using references or "smart folders." Is > that true? > > It's true if not using the Gmail labels feature described above (mapping > to tags). And just to be clear: The problem is that Gmail duplicates the > messages over IMAP. When an email client doesn't store duplicates then it's > because the email client has a workaround implemented specifically to > handle Google's alternative implementation of IMAP. I know this distinction > doesn't really matter in practice :-) > > -- > Benny > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > >
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