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I may have missed discussion on this, so please point me to the thread where this is mentioned. Something I just noticed is that labels I create in Gmail (from the Web interface) that have slashes in their names are interpreted in the iPhone/iPod 3.0 Mail app as parent and child (hierarchical), giving me actual sub-folders! I have a label in Gmail named "Money/Bank", and in the label listing for my Gmail account in the Mail app on my iPod touch, it shows "Money" as a grayed-out item, and "Bank" as an indented sub-folder with a slightly smaller folder icon. Can't touch the gray item, but I can touch and load up all the mail archived in the sub-folder. A very nice way to organize archived Gmail mail on my iPod! Of course, I now fully expect someone to reply with "Jeez...where have YOU been?!" Or is this something brand new?

If you name email folders like that in many programs, it will create two folders (or more)
It assumes it's a path, just like an operating system does when typing a path.
If you don't want that, you can name it:
Misc-Apple or the like.
Misc/Apple creates two folders, in succession.

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