I recently started using mutt, connecting to GMail w/ IMAP. It's been working pretty well.
I'm still really interested in a full mail client that supports all of gmail's features (labels, archiving, etc), and works well with Emacs.
I'm still really interested in a full mail client that supports all of gmail's features (labels, archiving, etc), and works well with Emacs.
I've been working with the maildirroot branch [0] which mimics the IMAP installation of GMail, so you can use a standard OfflineIMAP to sync between your computer and GMail, and still use all the power of tagging/archiving/searching on your computer.
Oh and it has a few niceties, the most important one to me being native support of gpg.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers.
But you can achieve a local setup which rivals with Gmail by combining mutt and/or notmuch/mu and isync (mbsync). And it's quite possible to keep it sync'ed with Gmail, although there might be some rough edges.
Personally, I don't thing tags are that useful if you have a fast and expressive local search engine like notmuch or mu (xapian-based), but YMMV.
https://github.com/agpchil/mu4e-maildirs-extension
It didn't work quite like I wished right "out of the box", but it wasn't too hard to hack it to behave more according to my wishes. Three cheers for open source software!