Google's version of folders in the context of email organization. They are essentially tags that can be assigned to an email message. A message can have one or more labels.
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Label outgoing emails in Gmail when composing the mail
I try to label every single conversation that is in my Gmail inbox. For incoming mails this is super straightforward. I just hit L, type the first few letters of my desired label and hit Enter. So far ...
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Remove Important Label from Gmail
The Important label shows up on the left sidebar, and I want to get rid of it. I can hide it under the "X more" dropdown, but that doesn't get rid of it but only hides it. Also I don't want to mess ...
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How to remove multiple Gmail labels
I have imported old emails from Outlook backups in my Gmail account and I ended up with 1000+ labels in my system. Is there an easy massive way to remove them and keep only ~10 my usual ones?
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Gmail filters/labels: Force email to stay in Inbox?
I receive email to these addresses:
my-team@example.com : This is my team's primary method of communication. I want all of this email to go to my Inbox.
other-team@example.com : This belongs to ...
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Search for emails belonging ONLY to the specified label
How do I search for the emails that belong only to a specified label, and do not belong to any other labels.
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How to add filter and label to group in gmail contacts?
I have my gmail contacts sorted into groups. In my mail I also have labels associated with filters-for specific people I have a filter associated with a label.
For the filter creation, how do I ...
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How to show messages whose only label is “Inbox”?
I have a ton of labels. How do I tell Gmail to show all messages which are in my INBOX and have no label?
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Can I add a description to a Gmail label?
Is it possible to add a description to a Gmail label, akin to the tag wikis of Stack Overflow?
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What's a keyboard shortcut for Gmail to show the unread messages with a specific label?
I want a keyboard shortcut to take me to the list of unread e-mails with a specific label.
I can type g + l then type the label name and is:^u, but I want to know if it can be done with a shorter ...
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Automatic labels in Gmail?
Is there some way to make Gmail apply a label to incoming mail automatically based on the sender? For instance if Bob is my client, and all contact I have with Bob is work-related, can I make Gmail ...
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Is it possible for there to be multiple labels to emails in gmail?
If an email applies to more than one filter (with associated label) will the email display all the labels for the relevant filters?
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Sort Gmail inbox messages by label
I use labels extensively in my Gmail inbox. Is there any way to sort by label? Seems like that could be quite useful.
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What other settings could prevent the “Go to Label” feature working in Google Mail?
The "Go to Label" Lab feature should work as follows:
Press g then l (goto label)
Hovering input box opens
Start typing a label's name or a folder name (Inbox, Trash, etc.)
Suggestions appear as I ...
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Can I label a Gmail message from a popup window?
I let Gmail run in the background, and it gives me some nice browser notifications for every received message. Clicking these opens the message in a new popup window.
I know I can trash or archive ...
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Nested labels have disappeared when I removed “parent” label. Where did they go?
I created a label in my Gmail labels and nested other labels under it. When I went to remove the created label this message appeared:
The following labels will be removed from your messages and ...
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How to set the color of a label in Gmail to a default color once too many custom colors have been created?
I use labels and custom label colors in Gmail a lot in order to help me organise my inbox. However, I have now hit the limit on the number of custom colors that I can use.
When I try and add a ...
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How do I add automatically labels to the incoming emails in my Gmail account?
How do I add labels to incoming emails that I am sending to myself. I saw somewhere that it is possible to send emails to myself using specially formatted email addresses that are containing the ...
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How do 'Bulk' and 'Notification' labels work in GMail?
I didn't understand what do Bulk and Notification labels mean and how they work. Could you explain me which is their inteded behavior?
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Label/filter mail sent to specific recipient (or whole domain) on Gmail
I'm planning on deleting a very old domain I never use other than quite a lot as various email addresses on websites, services etc.. hello@mydomain.com, anything@mydomain.com etc.
As it is, all email ...
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Gmail label scaling limitations?
Are there any issues with creating a lot of labels in Gmail?
Things such as:
Limit to the number of labels that can be created?
UI concerns?
Performance issues?
Conflicts with certain Labs features ...
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Gmail web, is there a plugin to tag email with a direct button?
Do you know a browser plugin (or something else ?) to add some labels as direct button (no menu) in the web interface ?
For example, I would like to mark my email in gmail and directly click on a ...
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Is there any way to have Gmail folders show total unread count (including subfolders)
I sometimes miss unread emails because they are sitting in sub folders
Let's say I have a folder called Trips with 3 sub folders called, Florida, Boston, Washington respectively.
If Florida has one ...
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Create Dynamic Gmail Labels From the Email's Subject
Is there anyway to set up a filter that will create and apply a new label for every word in the subject line? Something like label:{subject} maybe?
Obviously I wouldn't be using this for standard ...
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Gmail is automatically labeling messages
I have my university email account set up in Gmail to send and receive. Previously, I created a filter that would move all messages to foo@bar.edu to the foo@bar.edu label. I have since deleted that ...
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How to mark / tag / label forwarded and replied to messages in Gmail?
When I forward a message or reply to a message in Gmail, the Gmail inbox does not show these messages as forwarded or replied to.
There is no indicator at all, so I can't tell if I have already ...
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Can I share labels within Google Apps for Business?
Can I share labels (= emails with particular labels) across Google Apps for Business users?
I have created label testing that contain results of testing and want to share these emails with other team ...
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google mail showing all labels in in box, how to do like hotmail folders in gmail
I want to display mails like hotmail. Hotmail displays inbox items seperately from other labels/folders. But in gmail even after creating fileter with labels all mails appear in inbox.
How to make ...
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Gmail labels and filters
I have a bunch of filters set up to channel certain emails; label them and skip the inbox.
However, if I reveive an email that doesn't fit the filter criteria, and I label it manually, I would like ...
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How can I customise Gmail Priority Inbox to show multiple labels (or nested labels) in one section?
I have nested labels (Work, Work/Brighton, Work/London). When I select the parent label "Work" for a section, the children "Work/Brighton" and "Work/London" are not automatically added to that section ...
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Gmail filter not from address conversation
I created a filter that matches all the automated messages sent from a service, marks them as read, archives them (skips the inbox), and adds an "Automated" label.
This works great most of the time, ...
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How to prevent certain 'Bulk' labeled email from skipping the inbox?
In Gmail, I have the smart labels 'Bulk', 'Forums', 'Notifications'. I have a daily reminder email sent everyday that is now getting marked as 'Bulk' which is a correct categorization, however I want ...
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History of Label use in GMail?
Is there a way to view a revision history of labels in GMail-- for instance, to find all messages that where Archived in a particular day?
Use case: used Boomerang program to have 100+ messages ...
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Automatically apply parent label to sublabel in Gmail
When labeling a message with a nested label the message does not appear in the parent label, which in my opinion would be the power having a label hierarchy.
Is there a way to automatically apply the ...
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Can I label a message in Gmail before I send it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Label outgoing emails in Gmail when composing the mail
Some of the messages I send in Gmail I need to label. Right now I'm having to go into the Sent Items and select ...
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Label several email addresses in Gmail in one go
How do I put a contact group label on several email address in bulk instead of putting a label in every email address one at a time.
For example: I have 100 email address and I want to create a ...
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In GMail, how to find all messages having more than one label applied?
Despite I love GMail with all its features, it seems that I should consider using a desktop software email client like Thunderbird or Evolution in my current conditions.
So I'd like to optimize my ...
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Create labels automatically from sent emails in Gmail, same for recipient's end
Is there a way to automatically create a label in Gmail once you send it, which could also create the label on the receiving side of the email?
I want to have labels automatically generated on both ...
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Gmail, Prevent Multiple Filters from Matching (Folder Structure)
Is there anyway to have Gmail filters work with a nested folder ideology?
Say I have a label structure that includes: "YouTube/TEDEducation", "YouTube/TruthSurge", etc.
It is easy enough to match by ...
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GMail conversations inconsistently labelled
It appears that individual emails within a conversation can be inconsistently labelled - I think this arises when using GMail on Android where individual messages can be labelled.
This problem arose ...
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Gmail sent messages labeling issue
I have one gmail account made last year that has a "Sent Messages" label. And another gmail account without it.
I think this was gmail's default, but for some reason it was erased on the newer ...
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Send forwarded domain email to Gmail folder
I have a couple of email addresses from name@example.com that I'm forwarding to a personal Gmail account.
However, I need to save disk space and move my email messages to Gmail. Is it possible to ...
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Archive labeled e-mails like smart labels
Smart labels have a checkbox at the top-right which says:
Archive incoming Forums (skip the Inbox)
How about non-smart labels? How could I do the same. I couldn't find a checkbox on labels that ...
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Add newsletters to Labels Gmail
I have subscribed for stackexchange newsletters and i receive 8-9 newsletters per week.
I want to add them to "Stackexchange" label.After reading this post , I created a filter,but don't know how to ...
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How to make Gmail automatically label incoming emails
I would like to set it up so that Gmail labels incoming mail based on which business email of mine the emails are sent to. I have two business emails that come to my Gmail account.
For instance, if ...
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Labels for sent messages
I'm a new GMail user, and I'm trying to figure out how to make labels work smoothly.
When I assign a label to an incoming message, it disappears from the inbox and appears in the folder(s) it has ...
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1answer
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Missing important emails in gmail that don't have labels
I don't see emails in my inbox of gmail because they don't have labels. How can i get those to automatically show in my inbox?
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How can I delete email sent to myself in Sent folder without deleting it in Inbox
I sent an email to myself to keep it under a label, but when I delete it in Sent Mail, it deletes the message in the Inbox as well.
How can I keep it in Inbox (or under a different label) and delete ...
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Gmail filter “has the word” stopped working?
I am receiving emails with test results from overnight automation testing. I used different filters to label all testing emails. One of them is to make failed email with red label—easy to see if ...
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Find messages which have no label [duplicate]
My problem is about missing the messages from the labeling. I have a organized labels in my Gmail account but some old messages have no label. I want to find and add them proper labels.
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Gmail: why are all my messages “partially” labelled?
When I select a label, and "select all N messages in X label", all possible labels are partially selected. To be clear, this doesn't happen unless I select all messages in a label. None of the ...
