GMail labels sync - what and how?

[Rainer M Krug]

Abdó Roig-Maranges <abdo.roig at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> They don't seem to be installed using homebrew (OS X) - I'll follow this
>> up.
>
> Oops, here it is!
>
> https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/master/docs/MANUAL.rst

Thanks - got it.

>
>
>
>>> I'm not sure about notmuch. Notmuch keeps its own tags in the external index,
>>
>> That's what I like about it - I use it mainly for indexing and searching
>> my email.
>
> Yes, the indexing is fantastic, What I was referring is that notmuch has its own
> tagging system that lives entirely within the index, and I don't think it cares
> about X-Keywords and such (it didn't some time ago).

OK - that's right.

>
> I know about some software to keep notmuch tags, with X-Keywords labels in sync:
>
> https://github.com/gauteh/abunchoftags.git 
>
> But have not tested it. Also, it looks like a new layer of complication where
> things can go wrong. That's I'm using now mu for mail indexing, and mu4e for
> mail client.

Absolutely - I agree with you.

>
> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
>
> The advantage of mu is that the index is just an index, it has no extra data
> kept only within the index. Also it indexes the X-Keywords header.

Might be an alternative to notmuch.

>
> A bonus of having an index that is just an index, is that I can now sync my
> Maildir across machines via rsync and friends, and everything just works. No
> need to sync huge indexes just for the tags.
>

This is true but not relevant for me as I am only working from one
machine and when on other machines, I use gmail.

Thanks a lot,

Rainer

>
> Abdó Roig.
>
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