From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE90A1382C5 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2021 20:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17BB4E0991; Tue, 6 Apr 2021 20:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDD96E097E for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2021 20:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lTrwS-0003JH-IF for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:04:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for other Seamonkey users Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 20:04:47 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <2c5ea74d-d104-67d1-cfc2-5336b26a8f00@gmail.com> <606C8B2B.9050809@youngman.org.uk> <1f8b27a7-68cc-4286-4fb6-ed2688d7825f@gmail.com> <4773d3e7-581a-b1dd-ba7c-dfd8a25ab1d0@youngman.org.uk> <0a48030c447cedc0a28a4df9449fb9bc966acdeb.camel@gmail.com> <062baeba-6536-5b45-b81c-7ab61f78fa30@youngman.org.uk> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: 2b4b3bbc-61a4-4a1e-b7ce-9734e7ab2a67 X-Archives-Hash: f1205d51f3b51a3e5243f81cf42b3d71 On 2021-04-06, antlists wrote: > On 06/04/2021 19:30, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: >> On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 19:19 +0100, antlists wrote: >>> Imap is quite happy with folders. Google let you create folders, IMAP >>> lets you access them. No problem. >> Disclaimer: I haven't used Gmail in a few years. >> >> Interjection: Gmail does*not* support folders. Gmail uses*labels*, >> which mail clients will treat as folders. > > True. But I believe that's a recent change. No, it's always been that way -- at least for all of my GMail accounts. > Google is moving to labels for everything, and it's driving me nuts > in more ways than one ... > > I think of Google as using folders, because not that long ago that's > exactly what they did. Everything I've read, and all my experience since I started using mutt with Gmail many years ago has been that GMail's IMAP server has always implemented folders using the normal GMAIL label mechanism. And I've always been perfectly content with that implementation. -- Grant