Why can’t `markSpam` == true?
skyzyx opened this issue · 5 comments
The software yells at me when I try to set markSpam: true. I was just wondering if there's a reason and/or any way around it.
I'm also assuming this is a common issue that people know about. If it isn't, I'm happy to provide more information (as this is definitely not a complete bug report).
This is not an accident. Gmail doesn't allow marking something as spam directly from filters, so this is not something gmailctl can do something about.
I know it's not the same, but one way to clear off some unwanted emails would be to delete them or "mark as read and archive".
Makes sense.
I guess my next question is: Why is this even an available option? (Not sure where I copy-pasted it from, but it was almost definitely from somewhere in this project and its docs.)
I don't see any trace of markSpam: true anywhere in the repo (https://sourcegraph.com/search?patternType=literal&q=repo%3Ambrt%2Fgmailctl%20markSpam%3A).
You can set it to false however. From the README:
markSpam: false: do never mark these messages as spam. Note that setting this field to true is not supported by Gmail.
Thanks, @mbrt (and thanks for the amazing tool, by the way!)
This matches what I would expect, given the GMail Filter UI:
You can specify a filter to not mark a message a spam, but not the opposite.
Yup!