[OT] folders in gmail

[G. Matthew Rice]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 12:47 -0400, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I've recent moved my decades of email archives to Gmail and am very happy to
> > have made the switch ... if for no other reason than to be able to search
> > those archives in a way that Thunderbird or Evolution never even tried.
> > Moving conceptually from conventional IMAP folders to Gmail labels takes
> > some getting used to, but isn't a step down in functionality. I like that I
> > can assign multiple labels to an email, whereas in IMAP a mail can only go
> > in one folder.

I haven't confirmed this myself but it is my understanding that, if you
connect via IMAP [and maybe POP] to get your e-mail, the labels appear
as folders.  So you can have both.

--matt

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