That's interesting! It makes sense. Thanks! On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 7:31 AM Bill Cole < mmlist-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
> On 2024-02-02 at 22:46:57 UTC-0500 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:46:57 -0800) > devynosbo...@gmail.com <mailmate@lists.freron.com> > is rumored to have said: > > > Hm, I take that back. At some point today, the tag removal was properly > synced. It just didn’t do it right away, even after a manual sync. Maybe it > waited for some sort of mailbox refresh? > > Webmail+IMAP systems like GMail's are likely to have transient > synchronization issues because the web and IMAP interfaces each have to > work with their own versions of the mailstore in conflicting ways that are > reconciled behind the scenes literally when you're not looking: changes in > one mailfolder from one client other than adding or purging messages are > likely to not be visible in another client while it has that folder open, > and some changes (like purging messages marked as deleted) may only be done > 'for real' when a client switches to a different folder. > > And at the scale of GMail, they may well also have simple replication > delays because different clients are attaching to different actual machines > which might be on opposite sides of the planet (in principle) and nothing > is actually instantaneous (except maybe neutrino type transitions...) so > the mailstore is eventually consistent in all views. > > > > On 2 Feb 2024, at 12:10, devynosbo...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> > >> Does MM sync tags/labels with Gmail after the first download? That > doesn’t seem to be happening for me, though I could be missing something > easy! > >> > >> For example, today I received an email which Gmail erroneously > tagged/labelled as Important. MM downloaded it. I then went to Gmail in > Safari and untagged the message (I used Safari out of habit, though I guess > I could do this within MM). However, after sync, MM still shows the email > with the Important tag. > >> > >> I have the Important tag properly set up / synced within MM, per the > instructions, though again, could be missing something. > >> > >> Should I use MM to untag? Would that help? I occasionally need to use > Gmail to do so, for example, on my phone (though I also just started > testing Preside on iOS). > >> > >> Thanks for any help! > >> > >> Devyn > > _______________________________________________ > > mailmate mailing list > > mailmate@lists.freron.com > > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > > > -- > Bill Cole > b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >
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