Gmail System Folders with CFImap

When you do a CFIMap “listAllFolders” operation against Gmail, some folders don’t show up by default. Unfortunately they are among the more important folders like Drafts, Sent Mail, Spam, etc. They are there, but for some reason they don’t show up, even with recurse set to true.

I’m not sure the reason, I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that Gmail works with “Labels” and not folders.

The solution is to know what to target. To get the system folders you have to target the folder: “[Gmail].”

Here’s the code: