'double' message with gmail IMAP?

[Paul Sargent]

On 12 Nov 2007, at 12:34, LuKreme wrote:

> So, I have been using gmail's IMAP for a bit now and I am noticing  
> that messages for mailing lists show up both in the gmail INBOX and  
> in the gmail folder for the appropriate tag.  This means that I see  
> (and am storing cached locally) two of every message to my gmail  
> account.
>
> I have the mailbox name column turned on, so I can see that the  
> messages are in both Inbox - Gmail and in, for example, mac-talk.   
> And they are not the 'same' message because reading one doesn't mark  
> the other one as read.
>
> Anyone else seeing this?  What's the solution?  Perhaps a setting in  
> gmail?

I think this is just a fact of life when using GMail IMAP. Labels and  
Folders don't match up one to one, and so this is one of the side  
effects. It's also true when you have more than one label applied to a  
message.

As far as the 'message read' flag goes, what I'd expect to happen is  
that reading it in one folder will cause the flag to get set back on  
Gmail (which I know it does). So,  next time the other folder  
synchronises with GMail it will get the new read status. It's not  
immediate, but it should work itself out.