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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:10:17 +0100
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Subject: Re: gmail label support patch available for oflineimap
From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Rainer@krugs.de
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I just want to say that having notmuch communicate with Gmail is terrible idea, since this
>> would mean duplicating of jobs that offlineimap and notmuch do.
>
> My sentiments, notmuch is doing realy good what it is doing, and adding gmail / other server
> communication is not the best idea.

And I disagree.

>> I could see some *other* tool, besides notmuch and offlineimap, which connects to Gmail to
>> fetch the tags, but that would again duplicate a lot of the code from offlineimap.
>
> I also agree here - offlineimap already has a repository type Gmail, and if gmails imap
> extensions, particularly
> https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/imap_extensions#access_to_gmail_labels_x-gm-labels
> is used, it should be not to difficult to read the labels and to store them in e.g. a sqlite
> database for each message id. This could then be written back as well, and only the [GMAIL] folder
> would have to be synchronised, i.e. no duplication.

Not everybody uses offlineimap.

-- 
Felipe Contreras