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jberkel / sms-backup-plus

Backup Android SMS, MMS and call log to Gmail / Gcal / IMAP
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync
Apache License 2.0
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Different app behavior using new authentication method #982

Closed ekw closed 4 years ago

ekw commented 4 years ago

I switched over to the IMAP method and it's working, but it seems to behave a little differently than before.

So SMS Backup+ transfers my SMS messages to my gmail account and label them "SMS". Nothing surprising here.

Before Google hamstrung the app, if I delete messages or label them as something else in my gmail account (remove the "SMS" label), SMS Backup+ would not re-transfer the SMS from my phone to gmail. It would transfer only new messages.

With the new IMAP method, if I delete a message or label it as something else in my gmail account, SMS Backup+ will now re-transfer the SMS from my phone to gmail. In other words, it will transfer new messages, but also any old messages that were deleted or re-labelled in gmail.

Is this expected when using this IMAP method? I liked the old behavior because now I get duplicate of messages that I re-labelled in gmail and the messages that I deleted from gmail will keep coming back.

teezeu commented 4 years ago

my deleted do not come back

ekw commented 4 years ago

Never mind, when I started using the IMAP method, my phone started transferring all the SMS messages to gmail again (which is unfortunate but I understand). And it was still in the midst of syncing, so messages were still being transferred even as I was manipulating them on gmail and I got confused. Now that everything is synced and settled, I think it is OK now and works as before.