I have labels set up in Gmail with filters that associate emails to specific gmail labels. I would like to begin using Apple’s mail client. Will the filters in Gmail correspond with emails in specific folders within the Apple Mail client? Don’t want to set up filters in two different places. I noticed that the labels have been created in Apple mail, but the email messages are still sitting in the inbox. Thanks for your help.
MacBook Pro Apple Silicon
I doubt that'll work, very well might work setting up Rules in Mac Mail if you're setup as IMAP for gMail.
In gMail are the Label checked to show in IMAP?
Never set up a filter in gMail... where is that at?
Thank you for your response, but unfortunately, I’m not hearing an answer. To be long-winded, Gmail is a lot of content organized by labels versus folders. Labels unlike folders can live in many places through an association with this name called a label. This is why “all mail” transcends all labels and the root of email. It has no label, it is strictly the route of “being mail” which means anything that is mail, labeled or not, will exist in “all mail.” Because of our need to be organized, the labels create a containerized an organized feeling for the user by associating the emails to their proper association or label. I told you this was long, thinking it out too.
maybe my OCD side, but I always like to know that all Contant especially emails have a place for a label. Knowing what does not, is very important, which is a flaw with Apple mail and gmail in my opinion. To be able to hide All mail and create a folder called “ No Label Content” would be helpful. If a particular email did not have any label associated with it, it would show up in No Label content. If no email was here, this would represent to the user, a empty and organized inbox with no missed email. This is where I’m trying to go and where I believe a lot of users want to go. It’s a mental exercise, more than anything.
Back to our issue. if Gmail has labeled and identified these emails with one or multiple labels, then the hard work has been done. Now it is about transferring these associations between emails and LABELS, in Gmail, to folders (not sure what apple calls them) in Apple Mail. Whether it was a rule that was set up in Gmail that got them associated with the label in the first place, or was mainly created by you by creating labels, they are associated. They are marked. The only reason why these associations would not transfer to Apple mail is if either Apple or Google did not want this tied association between the Gmail app and the Apple mail client. If you read all this, you get two stars..
Maybe this was a mental exercise for my own self help :-). I would like all of the rules and filters that were created in Gmail relating to labels to work in Apple mail without having to re-create them.
Thank you for the reply. This is the point. I don't want to go through the same process in MacMail that I did setting up rules in Gmail. Not quite sure how IMAP vs. POP matters?
IMAP syncs what is done on the Mac & Server as far as reading, moving, replying to, etc. z& vice versa, POP usually just removes the eMail from theServer once read.
In other words, POP won't usually reflect changes on the server end, & will not reflect changes on the Mac end.
You've explained the "folder" vs label thing very well. which I generally avoid so as to not confuse things further :)
But it's still not clear to me what you want. :)
Gmail filters to Apple Mail folders
