Re: [VM] label synchronization between vm, imap server (gmail) & other clients

[emacs user]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Uday Reddy <address@hidden> wrote:
> E writes:
>
>> Hi all, I noticed that a message that is "flagged" in apple Mail.app
>> also appeared "starred" in gmail, and can be un-flagged on gmail by
>> un-starring it there, and vice versa.  These flagged or starred
>> messages appear in vm as red-highlighted summary lines with an
>> exclamation mark to the left of the subject line, which is great.  But
>> I don't see any way of un-marking/ un-labeling them to remove the
>> exclamation mark.  When the message is un-flagged/ un-starred on
>> Mail.app or gmail.com, this change does not propagate to vm.  any
>> suggestions?  thanks, best, E
>
> Check `vm-toggle-flag-message' (normally bound to `!').
>
> As for propagation to vm, you need to do `vm-get-new-mail' to synchronize
> with the server.  (This is an instance of the issue I was discussing in the
> other thread titled the "Google docs" paradigm.)
>
> Cheers,
> Uday

wonderful, works, thanks!  not sure why I wasn't able to find this
myself in the documentation...   label propagation indeed works both
ways using vm-get-new-mail and vm-save-folder (I have them bound to g
and s, and dont mind doing this manually...).  thanks again, best, E