On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 07:22 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this
maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a
folder. In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call
categories that auto-categorizes mail: inbox, social, updates,
formus, promotions. This is not reflected into IMAP, all these
categories are just INBOX. This is my problem, gmail auto-
categorizing magic is just too useful but only available through web
I/F. I _could_ write filters in theory, but gmail magic is just so
much better at it.
How much trust do you put in gmail in getting this automatic
categorising correct?
I make filters for standard things (mailing lists, my service
providers, etc), but I hand sort everything else because I wouldn't
want important things misfiled. I don't even use spam filtering
because I know that makes mistakes (in both direction), and it always
will.
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