I am using version 7 on GMail with IMAP. When I do a search with ‘All folders’ chosen, I get a list but the ‘Folder’ column shows All Mail rather than the GMail folder it is in, i.e. Inbox or Sent. I’m sure version 6 showed this correctly.
Do a search on all folders. After the search, look to see if there is a Column Heading named Folder. This is where it will show what folder it found each email in. If you don’t have a Column Heading called Folder just right click somewhere in the Column Heading line then click on Column Configuration then make sure that the Folder option is moved the right side.
Yes I have the column called Folder showing but it always shows All Mail for gmail searches, then shows correctly for my local folders.
The issue is, Gmail has only 3 folders (All Mail, Trash and Junk). The “folders” are virtual and are determined by a flag or flags on that email. Therefore, a single message could be in multiple folders (i.e., multiple flags), but really only physically resides in All Mail. As a result, the search function has no idea which folder to indicate, because it could be multiple. Version 6 did not so this, as it did not follow the Gmail standards.
Local folders, on the other hand, are actual physical folders and it will display search results as you would expect.
Does that make sense and answer your question?
Not really. I would like to see on the search results whether the email is in GMail’s Inbox, Draft or Sent or Trash folder. This is clearly possible as sync to GMail refreshes into these folders on my desktop so the folder can be determined. So it’s the folder on my synced desktop I’m after.
It should show trash and junk, as these are “real” folders. But Inbox, Drafts, and folders you create are not really folders. Messages reside in All Mail and have flags that indicate them to be Inbox, Drafts, etc. It is very possible to have a single email in several “folders” as you can use multiple flags, So if I do a search, eM Client would not know which virtual folder should display as it could be multiple. It is always, however, in All Mail and this is what will display.
So why not show multiple labels/folders in the folders column like you do with categories column? For most people this will be only one anyway. Inbox, Sent Mail, Draft, Trash or Junk. This might be useful to aid with cleanup of labels too.
Ok, good suggestion. Instead of the column containing words (e.g., “All Mail”), it displays the colored folder indicators. Nice idea.
Prefer the words, so a search spans/integrates nicely across to your local folders too, which also tend to be a lot more manually managed into a complex folder tree, but which there will be only one entry.
The folder column is there to answer the search question “where the heck are these emails?” . cheers AJ
Colors would just easily keep it to one line on the search results. That was my logic.
Colors don’t mean much to me. I’m after words that match the folder names used in sync folders and local folders. Maybe duplicate the search results for gmail it exist with 2 or more labels instead?
Colors don’t mean much to me. I’m after words that match the folder names used in sync folders and local folders. Maybe duplicate the search results for gmail it exist with 2 or more labels instead?