Maintaining a folder/tag parity about afew HOT 3 OPEN

Hey,
sorry to be late.

I do the same, so yes it can be done, it is not synchronous so new mails are not tagged / sorted etc,
but it is good to have the imap storage to be close that the notmuch state.

Before each sync I use the MailMover to move the according to some rules like:

# Perso
Perso/INBOX = 'tag:spam':Perso/spam 'tag:sent':Perso/sent 'not tag:inbox':Perso/archive 'tag:trash':Perso/trash
Perso/archive = 'tag:inbox':Perso/INBOX 'tag:spam':Perso/spam 'tag:sent':Perso/sent 'tag:trash':Perso/trash
Perso/spam = 'NOT tag:spam':Perso/INBOX 'tag:sent':Perso/sent 'tag:trash':Perso/trash
Perso/sent = 'NOT tag:sent':Perso/INBOX 'tag:spam':Perso/spam 'tag:trash':Perso/trash
Perso/trash = 'tag:inbox':Perso/INBOX 'tag:spam and not tag:trash':Perso/spam 'tag:sent and not tag:trash':Perso/sent

from afew.

@ploum I believe you might need a few more steps. I solved this with Gmail by using the following approach:

1. run afew with -m flag before running mbsync
2. Run mbsync, then tag all your email
3. Run afew with the -m flag again, and ideally, before that, tag all your emails again.

See: https://github.com/benmezger/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/afew/config

Ideally, you need to filter for the folder instead. If the email is in the deleted folder, for example, remove all other tags and keep the +deleted flag.

from afew.

As I said in #317 for those of us that do have an intricate folder tree, it'd be nice to have an afew solution which does not involve listing all the folders. Thanks for contributing, though.

from afew.