Mailspring: [Feature request] Add Gmail Categories

Created on 15 Dec 2017 · 8Comments · Source: Foundry376/Mailspring

I get a lot of emails. The only issue I have with Mailspring is not supporting Gmail Categories

I'm torn between Mailspring and Ploymail. Polymail doesn't have plugin support and Mailspring is hard to use due to large number of emails I get.

Please add category support. this is very important to many users and probably one of most important reasons people go back go Gmail web client.

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hadifarnoud

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https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions#access_to_gmail_labels_x-gm-labels

The above link explains that they are simply an extension to the IMAP standard, and implemented with similar API to IMAP folders. Should be possible to add to Mailspring and I would certainly love to see it supported.

leebickmtu on 26 Aug 2018

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Hey! Thanks for reporting this - unfortunately Gmail doesn't provide an API for it's tabs / categories (Promotions, etc.) It'd definitely be a nice feature to have - I sometimes go back to the Gmail UI to quickly clear all of my "Promotions" tab, but we'll have to wait for them to expose it via IMAP.

EDIT: I see Polymail supports them - will check this out a bit and see what they're doing ;)

bengotow on 19 Dec 2017

@bengotow I've been trying to crack this problem for a little while now, but I just can't seem to get the understanding of the program in order to fix it myself.
I think you might find this useful for implementing the gmail tabs/categories system.
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/labels

Adoah on 30 Apr 2018

they are just special labels I think. super useful to clean up the inbox

hadifarnoud on 13 May 2018

https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions#access_to_gmail_labels_x-gm-labels

leebickmtu on 26 Aug 2018

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you can set up a filter in gmail settings that attaches the label.
If the email matches category:primary you can set the filter to attach the label "primary". Then create the label in mailspring and it works perfectly.
It also works for category:updates, category:social and so on

omaregb on 23 Oct 2019

Airmail is able to do this, so it is possible. It looks for Category = Promotions or Category = Social, for example, to recreate those folders in the Mac client. I don't know which API or field they are getting those from, but they are definitely available from Gmail via IMAP somehow.