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Re: [imapsync] IMAP Sync to Gmail with sublabels


From Gilles LAMIRAL <gilles dot lamiral at laposte dot net>
Subject Re: [imapsync] IMAP Sync to Gmail with sublabels
Date Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:06:29 +0200

Hi Dmitry,

> imapsync --host1 localhost --user1 dmitry --password1  PWCHANGED --host2 imap.gmail.com --port2 993 --user2 dmitry.labutin --password2  PWCHANGED --ssl2 --justfolders

Ok, normal options.

I've just had a look (I'm not a gmail user) and you're right 
the label is then the whole "folder/subfolder1/subfolder2".
It's a gmail choice to map it like that, I understand why,
sometimes (rarely in fact) label1/label2 doesn't mean
the same as label2/label1. But I think gmail is wrong
for 99.99% of email sorting (or any data sorting).
It's also why labels are better than folder hierarchy,
easier to sort and retrieve data with labels than with folders.

I guess sublabels are in fact just a set of labels like 
folder subfolder1 ...
meaning "has label folder and has label subfolder1 and ..."
without order nor hierarchy.

Sorry imapsync can't do that right now but I think your need
is the good one to code. I'll do it this way when I'll
code --gmail option.


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