Re: [Geary] Ability to set inbox

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi Sassan,

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:08 PM, Sassan Haradji <sassanh gmail com> 
wrote:
> That feature request is a little bit different, my request is about 
> notifications, not the default selected folder when Geary starts up.

Oh I see. Well those two things are generally related, because to get 
push notifications for new mail using IMAP, Geary must keep open a 
connection open to a specific folder, and so Geary does just that for 
the default folder (currently the Inbox).

However the tabbed categories under GMail (Primary, Social, etc.) are 
more complicated since GMail synthesises these from messages in all of 
your folders, and does not export these via IMAP - so there's just no 
way for Geary to get to them. The only thing we do get is access to 
labels, including the Inbox and Important labels. These all show up as 
individual IMAP folders in Geary.

So to get what you are looking for depends on what you have configured 
for the Primary category in GMail. If it's just messages in Important, 
then Bug 713964 would help since you could configure Important as the 
default folder, and hence Geary would watch for new mail arriving there 
and notify you.

If your Primary tab contains messages that are e.g. a mix of unread, 
important, starred, etc, then I think the only solution is to set up a 
filter to update a label on messages in that category (e.g. as 
described here 
<https://dylanconlin.svbtle.com/exposing-gmails-categories-to-imap>), 
then use that label's folder as the default (i.e. still needing Bug 
713964 fixed).

//Mike

--
⊨ Michael Gratton, Percept Wrangler.
⚙ <http://mjog.vee.net/>