-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13/09/12 17:15, Damien Cassou wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jeremy Nickurak > <not-much@trk.nickurak.ca> wrote: >> Gmail doesn't have folders, of course, it has labels, which are approximately equivalent to >> notmuch tags. The key difference being that a message can only be in one folder, but it can >> have multiple tags/labels. > > Gmail exports its labels as IMAP folders: an email with multiple labels will be duplicated in > multiple folders (one per label). That's why I'm asking if it would be possible to manupale > folders from Notmuch instead of tags. > I don't think there is an easy solution. notmuch uses a maildir and tags. Gmail needs to be synced to this local maildir earlier, and this is where I think the problem comes in: I am not aware of any sync tool which maintains the gmail labels, as they are in in the imap context folders. I think the only real solution woud be: Download from gmail -> local: 1) download only the "All Mail" folder 2) implement a tagging tool which syncs the gmail labels to notmuch tags upload local -> gmail 1) upload "All Mail folder 2) assign on gmail the labels corresponding to the notmuch tags. The step 1 could be done by any sync tool available for this (offlineimap, ...) step 2 needs to be developed - no idea how, but it surely would be really usefull, because then notmuch would even become a perfect tool for gmail backup as well. Cheers, Rainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBS4akACgkQoYgNqgF2egoGhwCaAgfXQUAK4RK1v22JOhgYXfR1 +C8AnRU892SrxK7IYN9xoxhM865Y+vTA =ma75 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----