Questions tagged [gmail-labels]
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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Mimic "Mute" functionality with a custom label
I have two labels - followup and hold. Followup has all emails I need to action on. Hold label is for email where I'm waiting for something. I try to keep my inbox at zero email all the time. All ...
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How to make filtered emails obey my filter rule when selecting 'Not Spam' option in spam folder?
I have a forwarded email sending email to my Gmail address, I then filter those emails using these settings:
Matches: to:(@myemail.com)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "My Label"
Works great, but ...
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Calculate the size of label/search/filter?
Are there any ways in Gmail to see the total size of selected messages - that is, a label, search or a filter (filters are basically just static searches anyway, and I use filters to automatically ...
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If you delete a label and ALL contacts in it, will that also delete those contacts from other labels?
There are 1253 contacts separated by last name Alpha in 26 labels. I just imported the list to create ONE label for ALL those contacts. Now the number of contacts has doubled. I want to get rid of ...
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How to create a label for an alias account in corporate Gmail?
I have a corporate Gmail account: "pedro@business.com" and in my company Gmail account we have an alias, "ab@business.com".
I need to figure out a way to make all emails from my supplier (x@supplier....
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Possible to hide Gmail sub-labels when another sub-label is visible?
I've already set to hide labels if there are no unread messages.
However, if >1 or more sub-labels as an unread message, the entire hierarchy of that set of labels becomes visible.
Is there a way ...
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How do I setup Gmail priority labels with intricate filters?
I have a filter for important, unread and starred. Every time I try to change my Gmail priority inbox to the that label, it changes to: "All Everything Else." It doesn't matter if I try inbox #1, 2 or ...
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Apply Gmail filters to sublabels only
I'm migrating my email to Gmail and I'm trying to apply filters as follows.
Me.com
- Me
- Job Promos
- Education
I would like to filter out certain @ domains and stick them into either Job ...
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Prevent label from being applied
How can I prevent Gmail from applying certain labels to messages.
For example, I have a "Work" label and a "Home" label. Gmail is labeling some messages as both "Work" ...
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How to automatically forward Gmail messages when a label is applied?
I have found this question that is answered:
How can I automatically forward Gmail emails when a label is applied?
However I'm using that exact script and have replaced the label and recipient with ...
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To what extent are filters dependent upon the browser?
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I've pared down some of my larger gmail labels by deleting old, labeled e-mails. Because I've exceeded my quota, I'm now going through old mail by performing a search for has:nouserlabels. ...
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Gmail unread count not visible for long labels
In Gmail, labels with long names has their count cut off. Ex:
I've been shortening label names, but shortening names is not an elegant solution, IMHO.
I would like either:
Names would be auto ...
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Why is my email labeled and sent to a folder in Gmail instead of the inbox?
I have a custom label in Gmail that sends mail I want to look at about once a month to a folder labeled "JUNK". The filter tells the emails to skip the inbox, mark the emails as read, and label them ...
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Why do my filtered emails end up in the Sent label?
I have a number of filter rules in my Gmail account (my goal with my emails is to have every email I receive archived as I receive them, that is, always have an empty inbox) and it works fantastically....
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How can I save replies in Gmail with the same label
In Gmail:
Say when I have an email that has label xyz attached to it, how can I attach the same label/s to any reply?
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POP3 email in Gmail not filtering correctly
I am accessing another email account via POP3 within Gmail.
Update: I have 2 other email addresses set up with the same filters, and they are working as intended. The only difference between this ...
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Making labels sort correctly in Gmail's Priority Inbox
I have a label called "Action Needed," in Gmail and I want to use Priority Inbox to create a section specifically for this "Action Needed" label. In the Inbox configuration screen, I have these ...
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How to filter blocked emails in gmail
Because I don't want to lose any email I have this filter on my gmail which bypasses google's original spam filtering:
Matches: is:spam
Do this: Never send it to Spam
However, I have a block list ...
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Forward [only] unfiltered emails in Gmail
I am using a new email address, but I still want to get email from my old one. However, I do not want to get all the mail. A lot of my mail is filtered into different labels. I do not want to delete ...
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Gmail filter: forward emails that arrive to Inbox to one email address, and emails that arrive to spam to another email address
Gmail filter: forward emails that arrive to Inbox to one email address, and emails that arrive to spam to another email address.
How can this be done?
I tried playing with filters with the conditions ...
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How to add all emails from a domain to a label in Gmail?
Hope I am not duplicating a thread, I searched but did not find this particular question.
In Gmail, I know how to have labels added to all emails from a specific sender, but how do I set it up such ...
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In Gmail, how can I filter emails by a label applied to previous emails in the same conversation chain?
I get a lot of recruiting emails. I do not want to read these emails now, but want to retain them for the future. I have most set to skip my inbox and have a label applied automatically like so:
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In Gmail auto remove label when email is opened
I would like to create a "unread email" label to filter what has been unread vs read. I am successful in creating the filter; however the unread label sticks with the message indefinitely. ...
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How do I get labeled emails to skip my inbox?
I'm currently working in a role where I get many emails from many different teams, and these emails will usually end up being ~30-50 email long threads. Some of them are relevant to me, and some are ...
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Why does gmail fail to apply the filters for imported emails?
I forward my emails from
(1) IEEE using an alias (@ieee.org)
(2) AOL as imported via POP (@aol.com)
I use the filters to label incoming email.
I noticed that the filters I set up in gmail only work ...
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How to apply label to a reply message in Gmail?
I like to keep my reply messages with the original message, rather than looking for them in the 'sent' folder. But I don't see any way to apply a label when drafting a reply and when I hit send Gmail ...
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Automatically set label for all archive emails in gmail
I want to archive all my emails but not in the "all mail" folder, I want them in "Archive" label.
I created this filter:
-has:userlabels -in:sent -in:chat -in:draft -in:inbox
I want that all ...
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How can I make Gmail re-route all incoming mail to a specific folder except from addresses I "whitelist?"
The problem is, I'm getting tons of marketing emails, newsletters, etc., and all of these companies share their email lists with their partners. Plus, my unsubscribe requests aren't always honored, ...
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Filter Gmail Updates folder
Spent a couple of hours sorting out my mailbox in MS Outlook. Emptied the bin/deleted folder, cleared sent items etc.
Log onto gmail.com and noticed my storage is exactly the same. Checked all the ...
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Emails in wrong mailbox
I open Gmail, I see my emails labeled Category/Primary in my primary inbox, it's still loading, after few seconds it stops loading, and suddenly a new message is shown on top of the primary tab list ...
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How to use a label, but then filter out the extensions?
I'm setting up a new website/community and want to use my G-Mail account as the primary address. The problem is that I'm going to have a lot of emails coming through from different sources for ...
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Search mails for multiple labels
I've been using GMAIL for a long time and I have many mails with multiple labels. I am being migrated to Outlook and mails will be moved over and into Outlook folders based on labels, BUT only the ...
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I deleted Gmail labels, now how do I find the undeleted messages to delete them?
I only discovered, after I deleted a bunch of old labels, that that does not also delete the messages under that label (thanks for having that morsel of info at the bottom of the page rather than ...
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Applying a google apps script to a gmail account
I'm asking a question relating to the code on this post
How can I automatically forward Gmail emails when a label is applied?
function autoForward() {
var label = 'forwardthis';
var recipient ...
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G-Mail Extensions For Labels And Filters
I have a new GMail address for my business, which will have it's own magazine, and I want to set up the email addresses for this part of the business.
So I set up the filters : Magazine , Magazine/...
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How do I move a large group of emails from a "searched" group to a specific folder I have previously created?
The easiest way, which was 1. to search for your emails 2. select the emails you would like to move and then 3. hover over the folder button with the down arrow on it, has been removed.
Now you must ...
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How to filter and label messages as "INTERNAL-ONLY" and "EXTERNAL
I'd like to create a pair of labels.
One would be "INTERNAL-ONLY". This label should match email threads that only include senders and receivers on the thread whose mail domain, @example.com, match ...
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Labels not appearing on sent emails
I label all emails when I send them and over the past couple days, I'm noticing that when I check my sent mail folder, many of the emails I've labeled have somehow lost that label. I can manually ...
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Can't see sub-labels in left-hand menu
I have added 3 labels and nested sub-labels within each on the left hand side of my page (underneath my inbox). I then labelled all my emails.
When I click on the drop-down box next to my label, I ...
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Is it possible to display the label I searched for in the list of search results in Gmail?
I tried to visualise my question in the below screenshot:
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Expanded sub-labels keep collapsing in Gmail
I use a lot of filters in Gmail, which apply various labels and sub-labels to incoming messages. Normally when I log into Gmail, the labels and sub-labels are exactly as I left them the last time I ...
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Filter for email addresses with which I have corresponded
I'd like to create a search filter in Gmail which filters my inbox for emails received from addresses I have sent mail to.
Is there a way to do this, perhaps through a custom search query?
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Force emails from specific senders to stay in inbox instead of getting smart labeled by Gmail
I periodically get very important notifications from a pair of addresses. For reasons that elude me, they have recently started skipping the inbox and going to notifications. I would like them to stay ...
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Gmail filtering from forwarded accounts?
I currently have a few accounts forwarding into Gmail, and I have Gmail set up to send through those accounts as well - your standard inbox consolidation via Google.
For ages now, I've been labeling ...
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list all email matching filter on one page?
I do a search, and get all the emails appear. Lots of messages match. I want to get rid of all the ones I see but see the subject first.
But it only shows me 20. I click the checkbox that selects ...
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Counting number of labels created per day in Gmail
I receive many enquiries/emails every day. Each one is labeled as enquiry. Each enquiry/email is responded to within the specific thread. Some email threads can include 20 or more emails and each ...
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Is there any way to avoid smart labels duplicating existing labels?
I see there were some updates to Gmail smart labels where they now auto categorize items as purchases, travel, etc. I already have a label called travel and it seems like it treats these as two ...
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Gmail label unread count
If you
set up a filter
Matches: from:(foo@gmail.com)
Do this: Skip Inbox
read a mail from that person
apply label
receive a reply
The label will not show a count for that reply or any other replys ...
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Is it possible to move messages in gmail to another tab with only the keyboard?
With Gmail's new tabbed inbox, is there a way to move a message to a different tab, using only the keyboard?
Selecting a message with x, then pressing v to open the Move To drop down, shows a list of ...
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In Gmail, search for emails containing one specific label and any other label
Is it possible in Gmail to search for emails containing one specific label (i.e. New York), and any other label available. In other words, I need to exclude emails that contain only one label.
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