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The worst kind of Easter egg: I just tried with a label named “todomail” and that was not a problem. Then I tried “todos” and that failed just like it did for you. Apparently Gmail disallows certain label names. It would be nice if that was documented somewhere… It makes sense in hind-sight but I never considered that “Todo” is not an acceptable Gmail label.

Mail rules are the life raft of the modern working nerd. Without my mail rules I’d be overwhelmed and drowning in messages that I don’t need to see right now, or maybe ever. For years, I’ve enjoyed some very complex rules in Mail.app. With the combination of MailTags and Mail-Act-On (I’ve written about some of them here), an Mac server can become a competent virtual assistant. Mail.app in Mavericks brings further improvements in rule handling.