Comments on: Mutt and Gmail via IMAP: How to delete messages

By: Angelo Bertolli

Angelo Bertolli — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:44:48 +0000

Save to “=[Gmail]/All Mail”

Why set the mbox to this?

By: Marianne

Marianne — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:59:25 +0000

#6, since I no longer use Gmail and IMAP directly, I can't test it, but I'd suggest you simply bind a different key to a macro that moves to the archive folder. I currently do this with a local Maildir archive folder: In muttrc:

macro index A "" "archive"

This skips asking you which mailbox to save to; you can easily omit the enter and sync-mailbox bits for more careful behaviour. You'll also want to set your Gmail archive folder as the "mbox":

set mbox="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/All Mail"

and you should look into what to do about labels, which you'll want to save to different IMAP folders if I remember correctly.

By: human mathematics

human mathematics — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:42:57 +0000

How do you purpoesfully move messages to the Archive once you’ve mapped “delete” command to trash? I want the “Delete” and “Archive” options both.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:08:24 +0000

Thank you for this post. Been trying to figure out all day how I could properly delete a message in mutt using Gmail, but this certainly did the trick.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:34:29 +0000

Great, glad I could help.

By: Matteo Riva

Matteo Riva — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:28:07 +0000

Yes the problem was actually write the changes made, “sync-mailbox” was just what was needed. Thanks a lot!

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:58:24 +0000

Sorry, I don’t know how to solve your problem — I am currently synchronizing Gmail’s IMAP mailboxes using offlineimap, and that works just fine.

I think that when I used mutt to read Gmail’s IMAP mailbox directly, the “read” message state after reading an e-mail with mutt translated just fine to Gmail. Did you make sure mutt writes the changes? (command “sync-mailbox”, bound to “$” by default)

By: Matteo Riva

Matteo Riva — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:36:47 +0000

Hello, I found this article very useful. I have another issue with mutt + gmail + imap, I still have not found the solution so I thought I’d ask you: I’d like to read mail on mutt and find messages as read when I open gmail in the browser. At the moment the “newness” of messages seems client side. Is there a way to do this?