Thanks, Chris, and also Caleb Rogers. I set sync_delete = no and then deleted those subsidiary folders and everything seems fine.
Great to have a supportive community to back me up! David On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 7:45 AM Chris Coutinho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > That depends on your remote config for your Gmail account. There's an > option called 'sync delete' or something similar that will sync local > deletions to your Gmail account, which will delete those labels from Gmail > if set to yes. By default if you delete a local folder it would also delete > the associated label on the remote as well. > > See this line and short description for what I mean > > > https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/7531ac4640aff8477b0893c55c99c9fe4a9bbcfc/offlineimap.conf#L558 > > Cheers, > Chris > > Op za 5 sep. 2020 02:01 schreef David Smith <[email protected]>: > >> I've finally RTFM and have gotten folderfilter working so that I'm only >> syncing ['[Gmail]/All Mail', '[Gmail]/Drafts', '[Gmail]/Sent Mail'] instead >> of the dozens of folders that I use on the web interface (e.g., Family, >> Friends, etc.). Can I safely delete those from my local Maildir, or will >> that garble something? >> >> Thanks, >> David Smith >> _______________________________________________ >> OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: >> [email protected] >> >> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project >> >> OfflineIMAP homepages: >> - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP >> - http://offlineimap.org > >
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