@phill is it possible to have a label be applied to all future emails? I only see that option for smart labels but not user created labels.

@dominic eventually!

@phill I meant to ask how does folders work since it doesn’t appear that Gmail supports them?

@dominic if you choose "Move" in Big Mail on a Gmail account, you get the behaviour of a folder (e.g. it removes it from one place and puts it in another), but it's still appears like a label on Gmail's web interface (Gmail labels are really just folders with shared message IDs anyways)

@phill sweet! Also, are emails supposed to be automatically archived after replying? That appears to be happening but seems like an odd behavior to me.

@dominic Gmail's weird and doesn't have a traditional Archive folder. Instead it has what it calls "All Mail" and that includes things you've sent too. Big Mail calls it Archive in some places, but really it's the All Mail folder.

@phill so once you reply to an email it is automatically moved to that folder? And I got around the not having an archive folder issue using the settings. It’s brilliant!

@dominic it's not so much that it's moved there, it's just that it's literally showing you “All Mail”.

And whilst you can change the Archive folder in settings, I'd be careful as that's not how Gmail is intended to work, and it may have side effects (I certainly haven't tested it!). That screen's really for fixing locations that couldn't be automatically mapped by Big Mail (foreign languages, etc).

@phill from my quick testing. It appears to stay in the “All Mail” location but is tagged with my new “Archived Folder”.

@phill I’ll do some more testing but so far seems to be pretty predictable and a good solution.

@dominic curious it prepends “[Imap]” to it! But as mentioned I would strongly recommend leaving it set to “All Mail”. You've been warned 😬

@phill yeah thought that was interesting! And I live on the edge 😂 real talk though, I am forwarding my email to the Gmail address I’m using in Big Mail so the underlying data is safe in case I mess something up with the Gmail address.