delivered anywhere other than INBOX, you need to either call deliver with a -m argument or use a plugin (e.g. sieve) and as far as I can tell, only the
Fair enough.
(Could never get sieve (cmusieve) to work with Dovecot - what does other people use that's simple to set up and works efficiently?)
labels,' I assume you are referring to TBird's 'Tags' which map loosely to IMAP custom message flags, (a.k.a. keywords.)
Sure, whatever. The principal difference between the two, I guess, is that a gmail label, when created, are automatically given an item in the tree view, which when clicked shows a list of all threads where at least one non-spam, non-trash mail item has the relevant label applied.
(How to configure TBird to do something like this with Tags is either impossible or beyond me, I'm afraid.)
There has to be user-specific and MUA-specific configuration for the usage model you seem to want.
That's a fair enough response, I'm willing to accept that ;-).