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Confusing instructions on setting up MM for Gmail

#2514

The Manual section for "How to configure Mailmate" says:

If you click “Edit Subscriptions” in the IMAP account editor for a Gmail account then you might notice that “[Gmail]/Starred” and “[Gmail]/Important” are unsubscribed.

"IMAP account editor for a Gmail account" is ambiguous because it never occurred to me that I should look for this anywhere but in my Gmail account at mail.google.com. However, the current Gmail interface has nothing clearly identifiable as a IMAP account editor, nor does it make reference to the notion of subscription.

I suggest updating the language of the manual along the following lines:

If you click “Edit Subscriptions” in the IMAP account editor for a Gmail account ("File" => "Edit IMAP Account" => [select account]) then you might notice that “[Gmail]/Starred” and “[Gmail]/Important” are unsubscribed.

It might be worth mentioning what I did find on Gmail:

In Gmail, under "Settings => Labels", one can ensure that the system labels "Starred" and "Important" are unsubscribed by unchecking the "Show in IMAP" boxes.

Reported by Tom Baker · March 29th, 2020 @ 01:33 PM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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