Mutt: gmail archive

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I want to recreate the gmail archiving method. I sync (using offlineimap) my inbox and my all mail folders, and, by archiving, I want to keep the one in All Mail and delete the one in inbox. Also, when I read a new mail in inbox I would like to automatically mark as read the corresponding mail into all mail.

I tried using the macro index, pager A s><return>y (I have set All Mail folder to $mbox), but the problem is that I get duplicate mails in the All Mail folder. Also, if I try to just delete the mail from Inbox, the corresponding one from All Mail gets deleted too.

Later edit:

Doing some more research into this topic I found that the duplicate mail in the All Mail mailbox stays there for 2 syncs: one to send it to gmail, which recognizes that it's a duplicate and deletes it, and one to delete it locally. So it seems that my macro works, but I would like to overcome this annoying issue.

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It's very annoying indeed because offlineimap keep downloading things twice, one for inbox and one for all mail. So I fingure out one trick: I don't sync All Mail at all! Instead I sync just Inbox and everything else.

I am very grateful to know a better way around.

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To simultaneously mark a message as read and delete it you can use the set resolve=no before the command to avoid jumping to the next message. This avoid having to check condition and such. Your cursor will stay in place after the ation is done.

For example, I uses the following to mark as read before moving a message to an archive maildir:

macro index,pager a ":set confirmappend=no delete=yes resolve=no\n<clear-flag>N<tag-prefix><save-message>=archive\n:set confirmappend=yes delete=ask-yes resolve=yes\n<next-undeleted>"

This will:

Set some value before the action, including resolve=no to avoid jumping to the next message
Clear the unread flag: <clear-flag>N
Save the message into my archive: <tag-prefix><save-message>=archive
Set value back to what they should be, including resolve
Jump to the next undeleted message: <next-undeleted>

So to mark as read and delete, something like this should work:

macro index,pager d ":set confirmappend=no delete=yes resolve=no\n<clear-flag>N<tag-prefix><delete-message>:set confirmappend=yes delete=ask-yes resolve=yes\n<next-undeleted>"

Mutt responsive way to refresh inbox

Bind a key (G for "Get" is recommended) to imap-fetch-mail in your ~/.muttrc.

 bind index G imap-fetch-mail

Pressing G while in the index will now fetch new mail from the imap server.

(for POP users, the fetch-mail function fetches mail from a POP server)

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