On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:15:59 -0000, Patrick Totzke < > patricktotzke@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Quoting Alex Botero-Lowry (2012-02-08 08:24:51) > > > I'm using a similar setup. An inconvenience with the setup is that > I have > > > various filters in gmail that filter, e.g., mailing list mails by > skipping > > > the gmail inbox and applying specific tags. ... > > > Ideally, I'd like a view in notmuch that shows the same messages as > the > > > gmail inbox. Is there a way to accomplish this? > > > - b > > > > You could sync every subfolder *but* "All Mail" instead of just this > > folder: Gmail tags are available as imap folders. You can then tune > > your tagging filters to sort by folder: queries. > > > That's a good alternative only if you have relatively few messages that > have many gmail labels assigned to them. Otherwise you end up syncing > the same messages many times through many IMAP folders (each > corresponding to one label). > > Also, this requires that every message ends up with some label, which is not true for me. > My approach is basically to reproduce the gmail filters as saved > searches in emacs. The messages need not have tags. YMMV. > Hmm ok, I suppose setting up tagging rules corresponding to gmail filters is a one-time effort. I think I'll go with that. - Bhaskara > Jani. >