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staticfish on Jan 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: My iOS 7 Wishlist

I think Gmail's IMAP implementation is a rather usable and clever hack, actually.

By the way, everything is under one folder, both on IMAP and in the web interface. It's called "All Mail" (Archive)

sp332 on Jan 22, 2013 [–]

GP means that each email is under only one folder in IMAP. In Gmail it's possible to have multiple labels on a single email, and this is not at all elegant to hack into an IMAP view.

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