Additional settings of IMAP GMail Labs

Despite the fact that GMail interface can now be considered the standard and convenience compared with him, not every desktop email client, all of us there is probably a need to work with the mail in of offline, and this is not GMail assistant. Selecting IMAP to connect to GMail you risk to encounter some problems, which follow logically from the fact that all the labels turned GMail in IMAP folders that can not confuse - because a letter with several labels is obtained in more than one folder, which does not comply reality.

To get rid of this and other problems, and also to make GMail IMAP presentation on your computer more slender and beautiful, you can now use the Advanced IMAP settings that are ripe in the depths of GMail Labs.

Firstly, it would be nice to include the very support IMAP, if you have not done so (tab Forwarding and POP / IMAP):

Advanced Settings tab, you can activate Labs GMail:

Then you can determine which of the labels (Labels) You will be interesting to see how folders in IMAP:

By default, all and built your own labels and transformed into folders.

New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls [Jamie Nicolson, Gmail engineer]