Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

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On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 08:30 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 08Mar2022 07:22, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've never used evolution, but decided to try it.  This time speed
> > to 
> > sync
> > was much more acceptable.  But there is one barrier to using
> > evolution over
> > gmail web interface.  Gmail sorts mail automatically into
> > "categories",
> > distinct from the mail folders that you can manually create.  I
> > find these
> > categories just too useful, and they are not reflected into imap
> > folders.
> > Without this sorting, my inbox is too cluttered with e.g.,
> > Promotions,
> > which I would normally not bother with when using gmail/web.
> 
> IIRC GMail "folders" are also its labels.

Actually it's the other way round. Gmail only has labels. It doesn't
have folders, but in most cases labels can be treated as folders.

> Can you write a filter rule in GMail which labels messages in a
> category with a label made for that category? Then they should all
> land in a matching "folder" as well.

Yes, that's certainly possible. The filter rules can match a category.

poc
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