Re: [Nolug] Gmail on your Desktop..

On 07/07/08 15:22, -ray wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> So it goes into All Mail? I've got a hundred thousand emails...
>
> Hahaha... it's funny cause I thought the *exact* same thing when i
> started using gmail. Like "this is crap...i need a folder!!! i don't
> want every message in All Mail. it'll get way cluttered and i'll never
> find anything!!". Personally I don't see the point of All Mail. It'd
> be like copying the messages in all your Thunderbird folders into a
> single folder. Why would i do that? So once you learn to just ignore
> that All Mail link, then life is good again haha.
>
> I had to lose the mentality that "a message belongs in a folder".
> Ignore the backend datastore for a moment, be it gmailfs, mbox, maildir,
> pst, whatever. When you move a message from your Inbox to another
> folder, that is the exact same thing as removing the gmail Inbox label
> and putting another label on the message.

If I've got a box on the floor in front of me, and I slap a label
(or two, or 10) on it, the box is still in front of me. Why isn't
that labeled email still in Inbox?

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas.  In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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