So is Gmail using GMail again? How confusing, and whenever I use one or the other and it seems to make a new folder of the spelling I use even if it's not what gmail wants. That means that I now have several "sent mail" folders and I can move some of them and combine them using the web interface.
Anyone? David On Tue, Sep 7, 2021, 13:36 Jens John <li...@2ion.de> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 06:59:23PM +0100, Steve Karmeinsky wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 07:21:30PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jens John wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, at 19:12, David J. J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > > > What does gmail really want? Gmail or GMail or something different? > > > > Thanks in advance for your replies and help. I'm sorry I'm confused > but > > > > it is confusing. > > > Accidentally, I think they changed something because by mbsync config > broke > > > some time in August or July. I am now using "[Gmail]/All mail" & > "[Gmail] > > > /Sent Mail" (sic: yes, mail lowercased and Mail uppercased for the > other > > > folder. Previously, I had been using "[Gmail]/All Mail" (sic) (did no > longer > > > work). If in doubt, I would recommend using Thunderbird or another > IMAP tool > > > to check which folders a vanilla gmail account presents. Gmail is only > a > > > legacy account for me so I'm not exactly keeping up to date with the > > > service. > > Now this is very funny. > > Today's IMAP pull with mbsync indicates that Gmail has changed its reported > folder names'/labels' capitalization. Again. After everything was fine for > one > or two weeks. > > Error: channel gmail: slave [Gmail]/All Mail cannot be opened. > Error: channel gmail: master [Gmail]/All mail cannot be opened. > > As I don't really need my Gmail anymore I'll just remove Gmail from my sync > altogether. Personally, I find this inconsistency on Gmail's side highly > annoying. Their IMAP implementation is garbage. What a waste of time. >
