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Getting closer on that Gmail/Thunderbird sync problem.....
I think I'm making some headway on the aforementioned problem I'm having with Thunderbird and Gmail.
Earlier, I went into my Thunderbird profile (via this tip) and brute-force copied my message header files from the gmail.com folder to the imap.gmail.com folder. While it showed the folders and headers, it couldn't access any of the messages.
I then created a folder in Thunderbird and moved a message to it. I inspected the label Gmail assigned to it: it was [Gmail]/INBOX/Foo and not INBOX/Foo. Aha!
I hope I don't have to delete and reapply my labels. That will take some time. It sounds like a simple configuration setting on Thunderbird.
[Updated 00:58]. Found the setting (default folder tag), removed "[Gmail]", and the folders automagically reappeared.
Earlier, I went into my Thunderbird profile (via this tip) and brute-force copied my message header files from the gmail.com folder to the imap.gmail.com folder. While it showed the folders and headers, it couldn't access any of the messages.
I then created a folder in Thunderbird and moved a message to it. I inspected the label Gmail assigned to it: it was [Gmail]/INBOX/Foo and not INBOX/Foo. Aha!
I hope I don't have to delete and reapply my labels. That will take some time. It sounds like a simple configuration setting on Thunderbird.
[Updated 00:58]. Found the setting (default folder tag), removed "[Gmail]", and the folders automagically reappeared.