For years now I've had Google Apps for one reason or another. What started out as a employer's choice in one spot and merged into being easier than managing my own servers lead me down that path. There are plenty of reasons that I'll be migrating away from this solution soon but for now it's the devil I know and have time to feed. I'll save the rant as to how many different ways gmail is really broken for another time.

Until the release of OS X Mavericks there was an uneasy truce between Mail.app and Gmail. You simply did a few things, well a bunch of few things, but one time setup and it was done. Then along came Mavericks and there was pain. A few changes and things were ok again, assuming you had the time and bandwidth to let your massive collection of email download. The truce was uneasy but it continued to work. Then last week Apple released a fix to help Mail.app work better with gmail. And that's when things stopped working. At least for me and a collection of others who could no longer get mail in the Inbox. Read more about Mavericks, gmail and MailTags