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		stusmall on June 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gmail API What is it that you want that a desktop mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird doesn't give you?

coherentpony on June 26, 2014 [–]

They don't preserve the correct labelling. Google rolled their own IMAP implementation to support putting a single email into multiple folders without copying the email. Thunderbird will take a copy of the email if it has more than one label.

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