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I have recently setup Thunderbird to download all mails from my gmail account. There are lot of emails in gmail having labels. Is there a way to map gmail labels to thunderbird so that i can sort/filter by labels without having to manually re-tag them again in Thunderbird ?

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See : Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client.

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@ Will this download all mails from gmail to my laptop ? Is there a way to avoid this ? Will delete of mail from Thunderbird also delete from gmail server ? – James Nov 17 at 14:25
1. Probably yes, 2. Yes: stay with Gmail only, 3. Probably yes. I suggest to read very attentively the quoted article before implementing (and including the comments). – harrymc Nov 17 at 14:50
@Sorry Harry, i wanted to give vote to your answer .. but somebody had given you negative so i could only make it 0 by incrementing it. – James Nov 17 at 14:58
Thanks for the vote. Yes, somebody is misusing his downvote privileges, but it's certainly not your fault. – harrymc Nov 17 at 15:35
I have used this before. By default, only headers will be downloaded; the full message won't be pulled unless you tell Thunderbird to go get it. As for deleting in Thunderbird, by default it will label those messages "IMAP-Trash" in Gmail, giving you an opportunity to recover them, if necessary. There are ways to work with deletions differently if you want. – Al Everett Nov 17 at 19:17
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