On Nov 24, 2011 at 02:58 PM +0000, Matt Ford wrote:
I've seen a couple of internet posts about how starred mails are not propagated upwards from mutt to gmail, this looks to be the same thing. Unfortunately I didn't see a fix.
Just to note that I do use mutt and offlineimap. Flags set in mutt do appear to propagate to the server. Flags set elsewhere also come back through offlineimap to mutt. I tried it turning flags on and off in mutt, webmail, and on my phone and they all seemed to work ok.
I did seem to have a problem once in a while though. If I added a flag remotely, offlineimap didn't always pick it up immediately. If I made another change in my mailbox in mutt, locally, that needed to be synced, offlineimap would resync that box, sending the local change out and pulling in the previously made remote change as well. Sounds like something I should investigate and send off to the offlineimap list. That being said, it doesn't strike me as a huge annoyance because I rarely flag things anywhere but mutt, and even if I did flag something on my phone, the next time I got a new message in my inbox, the flag would be pulled in as well by offlineimap.
Note, some of this might have to do with the 'quick' setting in offlineimap. The notes for that setting say:
Ignore any flag updates on IMAP servers
As far as your IMAP server goes, if you are using gmail, who the hell knows what works and what doesn't. All of the above is with regards to a non-gmail server. I've weened myself off of gmail over the years precisely because it doesn't play well with others.
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