Deleting Gmail folders

[David Smith]

Thanks, Chris, and also Caleb Rogers.

I set sync_delete = no and then deleted those subsidiary folders and
everything seems fine.

Great to have a supportive community to back me up!

David

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 7:45 AM Chris Coutinho <chrisbcoutinho at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> 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.
>
> See this line and short description for what I mean
>
>
> https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/7531ac4640aff8477b0893c55c99c9fe4a9bbcfc/offlineimap.conf#L558
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> Op za 5 sep. 2020 02:01 schreef David Smith <acmdas at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David Smith
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