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Extend the notes with information for non English speakers
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This addition tries to help users who have there Gmail interface
language set to something other than English since following the current
notes verbatim might lead to some confusion for these sets of users.
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basbossink committed Jan 3, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ Settings you may need to change:
- =PassCmd= - We're getting the contents of a plain text file here, you might want to use gpg!
- =Pass= - If you want to use plaintext password (not recommended!), doesn't need quotation marks
- =CertificateFile= - This location can vary based on your Linux distribution!
- =Patterns= - Defines which folders will be synced
- =Patterns= - Defines which folders will be synced\\
*NOTE*: Non-English users might need to pay extra attention to the =Patterns= line since Gmail /renames/ the IMAP folders based on the selected user interface language one uses in the Gmail web interface.
In Dutch e.g. the /folder/ =[Gmail]/Starred= would need to be changed to =[Gmail]/Met ster=. Changing the =Patterns= line to =*= and running the command =mbsync --list gmail= might give some insight into which /folders/ are available. Unfortunately the mapping does not appear to be one to one, e.g. the /label/ =Sent= is shown as =Verzonden= in Dutch while =mbsync= reports =[Gmail]/Verzonden berichten= as the name of the IMAP folder.

For the security conscious:

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