Just setting up IMAP now, and I'm finding it rather painful because I have to date (like google wants me to) kept my gmail account online as a huge trash heap of email. The antithesis of Inbox zero. I vainly attempt to rein in the chaos on my mail client.

Adopting Gmail IMAP then is interestingly enough making me put more labels and associated filters that I've always used with my mail client now with gmail. This only makes me what to have an offline gmail client of course.

In addition, IMAP is now syncing all that wonderful Spam that gmail does such a great job of filtering. Great, just what I want on my computer, filtered spam headers.

Is there any way to select which folders to sync and which to only leave online ? I'd love it if spam and any auto-archived stuff stayed only online. My "All Mail" folder is just too large manage, and I certainly don't want to download all that for offline use. I certainly like the idea of having synced email on mail client and online, but not being able to customize what gets synced is driving me and my 4 year old notebook nuts.

Cheers,

Tom