Gmail: moving/refiling does not remove Inbox label

[Tjaart Van Der Walt]

Hi,

If I refile or move mail using mu4e, and I look at my inbox the the Gmail web-client, I can see the correct label attached to my mail, but the mail is also still present in my Inbox.

I am not sure if there is a setting in Gmail, or mu4e to remove the Inbox label when moving a mail?

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Hi Tjaart,

The labels are just a GMail thing -- they map to the maildir folders on
your local machine.

If the mail is gone from (say) your inbox folder in mu4e, it's the job
of the program you're using to sync with gmail (offlineimap, mbsync,
...) to make sure it gets updated there. So perhaps best to see what's
going on there.

Cheers,
Dirk.

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[Nan Zhong]

I was able to get this working using the following (the relevant part is the removal of the Inbox label):

(add-hook 'mu4e-mark-execute-pre-hook
  (lambda (mark msg)
    (cond ((member mark '(refile trash)) (mu4e-action-retag-message msg "-\\Inbox"))
          ((equal mark 'flag) (mu4e-action-retag-message msg "\\Starred"))
          ((equal mark 'unflag) (mu4e-action-retag-message msg "-\\Starred")))))

I use offlineimap to sync my mail and the relevant account section config is:

synclabels = yes
labelsheader = X-Keywords

The mark execute pre hook was taken from Magnus' config detailed @ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mu-discuss/BpGtwVHMd2E. Highly recommend taking a look at that as it greatly helped streamline my config and workflow.

Hope that helps.