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by vetinari 2812 days ago
The Gmail concepts do not really map very well to IMAP and traditional mail clients. They do provide a custom API that does mirror their semantic for that.
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Not today, I agree. It was just an ordinary email up until a few years ago though.
Gmail's labels have always been an arse to map on to normal IMAP-based email.