Support Gmail "Mute" Capability

[jlp78]

In some e-mail conversations with David Lechner, I suggested that Gmail Buttons add support for Gmail's conversation "muting" functionality. In Gmail's web interface, this functionality allows the user to "mute" or unsubscribe from a particular thread (conversation in Gmail speak). Received mail within the same thread will still be received and kept, but will bypass the inbox (i.e., be automatically archived). When you mute a thread, it also archives any existing messages in the thread.

Some experimentation shows that Gmail adds the "\Muted" label to messages in the thread. Unmuting the thread removes this label and restores the message(s) to their original folder (not sure how it remembers this).

Thunderbird already includes an "Ignore Thread" function (and "Ignore Subthread"), but these functions only ignore the thread within the Thunderbird client's view. They do not affect views of the thread from other clients.

Desired use cases are as follows:

1. User clicks "mute" button. "\Muted" label is applied and message(s) are removed from the "folder" they are currently in.
2. User finds message in "All Mail" folder (label) and clicks "unmute" button. "\Muted" label is removed from message(s) and they are restored to their original folder (label(s)).

additional desirable behavior: clicking or actuating Thunderbird's "Ignore Thread" functionality actually performs the actions above.

[dlech]

I messed around with this a while back, but forgot to follow up. Although you can add and remove the \Muted label, it doesn't seem to work the same as the Gmail web interface. So, it doesn't look like I can do anything about it right now. I'll leave this issue open in case Gmail ever makes the functionality more accessible.

[jlp78]

Thanks, David. It does seem a little odd from my experimentation, too.
Maybe I'll prod the google devs a little via some contacts I have there and
see if I can turn up a document filly describing the functionality.

-jan-
On Apr 24, 2015 9:11 AM, "David Lechner" notifications@github.com wrote:

I messed around with this a while back, but forgot to follow up. Although
you can add and remove the \Muted label, it doesn't seem to work the same
as the Gmail web interface. So, it doesn't look like I can do anything
about it right now. I'll leave this issue open in case Gmail ever makes the
functionality more accessible.

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