<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks, Chris, and also Caleb Rogers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I set sync_delete = no and then deleted those subsidiary folders and everything seems fine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Great to have a supportive community to back me up!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">David<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 7:45 AM Chris Coutinho <<a href="mailto:chrisbcoutinho@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrisbcoutinho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi David, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That depends on your remote config for your Gmail account. There's an option called 'sync delete' or something similar that will sync local deletions to your Gmail account, which will delete those labels from Gmail if set to yes. By default if you delete a local folder it would also delete the associated label on the remote as well. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See this line and short description for what I mean<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> <a href="https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/7531ac4640aff8477b0893c55c99c9fe4a9bbcfc/offlineimap.conf#L558" target="_blank">https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/7531ac4640aff8477b0893c55c99c9fe4a9bbcfc/offlineimap.conf#L558</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers, </div><div dir="auto">Chris </div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op za 5 sep. 2020 02:01 schreef David Smith <<a href="mailto:acmdas@gmail.com" target="_blank">acmdas@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I've finally RTFM and have gotten folderfilter working so that I'm only syncing ['[Gmail]/All Mail', '[Gmail]/Drafts', '[Gmail]/Sent Mail'] instead of the dozens of folders that I use on the web interface (e.g., Family, Friends, etc.). Can I safely delete those from my local Maildir, or will that garble something?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">David Smith<br></div></div>
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