Re:Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim
by bostonvaulter2 on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:43PM
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Does that setup handle gmail's concept of labeling? Such as archiving messages?
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Re:Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim
by koenigdavidmj on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:02PM
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http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657 is a nifty little chart showing how to accomplish Gmail actions from within the IMAP client of your choice.
If you delete a message from the inbox, then it gets archived. If you move it to [Gmail]/Spam or [Gmail]/Trash and then delete it, then it will really delete it.
As I understand it, IMAP is bolted on to gmail so labeling is never quite right in any client.
Tangentially, http://sup.rubyforge.org implements a GMail-like interface, full-text search and such but works with (essentially) any source.
I was recently figuring this out. Here is my config:
http://bit.ly/fRpcs7