On Mon, 11 May 2009 10:30, Andrei Thorp wrote:
Well, I have all my mailing lists neatly arraged here and so on. They get filed to labels and archived automatically so that I can read them in a unified place. I'd have to change this up so that they go to the inbox, and that screws up my mail filtering in gmail then (afaik). It kind of forces me to compromise one way or another (either have the nice tidy thing in gmail, or the nice tidy thing on my one box, but not both). Since gmail offers it anywhere, I prefer to do it this way.
Also, despite the mutt way being pretty nice and unixy (letting me script it easily into my window manager and so on), gmail just has an excellent interface with the folding, images, and so on. I hate to not use the classic mail setup everywhere, but it's just not as tidy anymore :/
What do people think on this topic? I personally find gmail to be extremely convenient, but I'm willing to be enlightened otherwise.
-AT
I also have gmail filter my emails, set some labels and archive them and it works perfectly. offlineimap maps the labels to directories, so there's no local filtering to do and everything's in sync. I don't really understand what's the problem you describe. Here's my .offlineimaprc: http://pastie.org/474464 Regards, -- Ricardo Martins * ricardomartins.cc * GPG key: 0x1308F1B4