Problem Statement

I’m in the process of de-googling, and I’m about 60% there, but I still need gmail for the things that I cannot or have not yet migrated.

I’ve also recently experimented w/ the Thunderbird app for Linux, and it’s okay. One thing that really irritates me is the fact that when I import my emails from gmail, all my labels are handled as folders in Thunderbird. I believe Thunderbird has the concept of tags, but by default gmail labels are routed to folders instead of tags.

Question

Is there a mail client on Linux (and Android) that handles labels from gmail as tags instead of folders?

I’ve tried searching DDG, but came up with nothing useful beyond other posts on other social media websites asking similar questions.

  • mina86@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Maybe those would help (although using those would require changing how you do emails and it’s not a solution for Android):

    • offlineimap in case you need something to fetch your IMAP emails.
    • gmailieer is a tool which uses Gmail API to fetch emails.
    • notmuch is a tool which indexes your email. You can assign whatever labels you want and rather than folders it uses tags.
    • For notmuch you then need a front-end which can display the emails. I use Emacs for that. And since notmuch uses tags, you can then create whatever ‘folders’ by making saved searches.