[sup-talk] Google and IMAP

[William Morgan]

Excerpts from Tim Vaughan's message of Sat Oct 27 09:28:45 -0700 2007:
> I now have sup set up with ssmtp and Gmail over IMAP and it seems to
> be working fine

Great!

> * Google has hacked together folder <->label translation.  Labels in
> sup don't correspond to IMAP folders as far as I can tell, so I either
> use Gmail labels or sup labels, not both.

Interesting. So I assume this means that a single message will appear in
multiple "folders", one for each label. Slightly weird, but Sup should
handle dupes fine.

> * I've created filters in Gmail for mailing lists which automatically
> archive and label incoming mail.  I can add an IMAP folder in Gmail as
> a source to catch this mail, but perhaps I would be better off not
> having Gmail filters altogether if I intend to use sup fulltime?

There should be no problem with using Gmail to filter or classify mail
in this manner. I use procmail to do exactly the same thing locally.

One day Sup will use procmail to perform its own filtering, but that
will be an added bonus and won't interfere with any per-source
autoapplied labels.

> * Furthermore, due to having to rebuild the index when I use the Gmail
> web interface, should I never use the Gmail web interface?

It's up to you. Sup doesn't play well with others. You can either
run sup-sync --changed every time you use the web interface, or you can
use Sup's superior interface and functionality exclusively. :)

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>