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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Mimicking Gmail's Tab Feature When Using Multiple Inboxes
I want to manage two different email addresses through Gmail, and I have been experimenting with the Multiple Inboxes feature to accomplish this. The downside is that it appears that I have to choose ...
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How to filter Follow-Up Emails in Gmail?
I create a filter for someone's email and it automatically goes to a folder.
For all of his following emails, they go into that folder. But for anyone who REPLIES to His email it goes directly in my ...
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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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How to apply existing Label in Gmail filter?
How to apply existing label as my search criteria in my old emails in Filters and Blocked Addresses when creating a new filter?
I need to filter my emails by time, sender and by is:unread status etc. ...
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How to archive Gmail threads by age and label or category
I have Gmail filters set up to label and categories incoming mail. How do I automatically archive my mail when it reaches a predefined age, with different ages defined for each label and category? ...
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Reference Gmail labels in Google Sheets
We have a shared Gmail account for our support team. That inbox has been given labels including a set which lists the email's priority level 0-5. To keep track of the progress we use a Google sheet ...
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How do I make a new Category on my Gmail Account?
I was using Gmail and needed to organize something into a category (that would show on for Configuring my Inbox) which I wanted to make specifically for it. Although I noticed that it only allows me ...
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Problem with filtering and archiving Gmail
I like to archive my gmail, i.e. get it out of my inbox, once a year. I like it to be available with labels according to year, for example, all the mail that was in my inbox during the last 12 months ...
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How to stop Gmail from forcing the Updates category on top of my other labels?
How can I stop Gmail from categorizing my e-mails under two labels, "Updates" and "General". I created a new category called "Travel", another called "Finance".
Each time I apply a filter or a ...
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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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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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Is there a way to apply a default label of my choosing to all incoming Gmail messages?
That is, the label of my choosing should be applied to all incoming emails notwithstanding the sender/recipient/subject/etc.
If possible, can the above be taken further wherein the label is applied ...
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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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Gmail scrollbar disappears
There is a feature of Gmail that drives me nuts. I have a lot of labels. Some of them are listed in a sidebar on the left. The scrollbar behaves like the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. I ...
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Gmail Hide Left Panel/Sidebar: Labels, Inbox, Everything!
I have a lot of rules that route unread emails to labels. I'd like to not let them distract me when I want to process the Inbox.
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Create filter in Gmail inbox [closed]
I wanted to create a filter in Gmail such that the message from specific person goes into my own made labels. Google already have some own labels. and I have also made my own labels but messages does ...
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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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Gmail search for unstarred emails in a label
Have tried multiple way and none of them has worked,
Used : in:Test -is:starred and -is:starred in:TEST and other option, None of them worked, in:Test -is:starred has listed all started email in Test ...
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View filter(s) that are currently being applied to an email message
I created a bunch of filters in Gmail for a "master account" that receives forwarded mail from all of my accounts. The filter list and web of labels/folders has grown to be rather long, and therefore ...
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Automatic re-labelling emails
Is it possible to have Gmail automatically label emails based on existing labels? For example, I have "Follow Up" and "Waiting Response" labels. What I would like is for Gmail to automatically relabel ...
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How to create a Gmail label
I am retired. I can't get a handle on Gmail labels. Google makes the assumption that everyone works in an office. I don't and never have. And so I am not interested in 'productivity' in the ...
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Auto-create and auto-apply labels to emails depending on sender's email address
How to auto-create and auto-apply labels to emails depending on the sender email address?
Example: Once I receive an email from no-reply@amazon.ca, Gmail will automatically create a new label "amazon....
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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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3,000 emails from ALL MAIL are in one new label
I have two new emails from someone I've not corresponded with before but will in the future. I just made a new label for that person. I went to settings and created a filter. Theoretically my label ...
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The fastest way to hide all labels in Gmail?
Label is a great feature to organize mail messages in Gmail.
Currently I have quite too many labels that I want to hide them all and display back one by one by my choices.
My google search here is ...
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How to move labelled Gmail in the Trash back to labelled folders instead of to the Inbox
How to move labelled Gmail in the Trash back to but back into the labelled folders instead of to the Inbox?
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How is stars different from labels in Gmail?
What is the point of having stars when we can already make our own labels? Aren't stars just another label? It would be interesting to see a use case where using stars is preferable to using labels.
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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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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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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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Changing all occurrences of one label to another when there is more than one page of results
How do I change all occurrences of one label to another? From the Gmail screen I can do this for the 100 messages displayed, but I have several screens of messages.
In a traditional mail program, I ...
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How do Gmail folders work?
I'm trying to write a script for someone in Email for Google Apps, and I thought I knew how folders worked in it. (Every email was in the inbox, and other folders were just filters looking at the ...
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How to clean up Sent Mail
I want to keep my Sent Mail folder (label would be more correct) clean, i.e. move done messages to some archive and keep only a few that remind me of something.
In the inbox I can do this by archiving ...
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How to undo automatic label on Gmail
Somehow I accidentally put a label on all outgoing mail in Gmail and now I can't figure out how to undo it so it doesn't automatically label everything.
How can I do this?
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Can Gmail auto track replies of emails when conversation view is turned off?
I know Gmail for some time now allows conversation view to be turned off, thereby ungrouping the emails.
However, when doing so, any email replied to leaves no marker at all (as best I can tell), ...
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Make Gmail show conversation count? [duplicate]
I want to replace Mailbox with something similar in pure Gmail. But I miss the way Mailbox shows the conversation count next to each folder.
Is there a way to do this for Gmail?
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How to display year-based Gmail labels in reverse chronological order? [duplicate]
I set up year-based labels in Gmail to archive old mails -- e.g. year 2001, year 2002, ... year 2013, year 2014, etc.
The problem is that Gmail displays the labels in the alphabetical order, which, ...
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Mark large numbers of messages as "not spam"
I receive large numbers of messages daily from an automated system, and I've just discovered that many of them have been marked as spam. I now have ~16,000 non-spam messages in my Gmail spam folder, ...
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See filters for Google Inbox Finance/Purchases labels
When checking settings of custom labels in Google Inbox, one can see the filters that are used to put emails there. However, such setting is not available for the special labels e.g. Purchases, ...
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How to apply a filter to incoming emails with a certain label?
Applying a filter to labels can be done to mails already in the inbox (filter> containing words> label:label-wanted) but what about incoming emails? That would be really useful, as we can't filter ...
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How to recover the label 'Deleted' in Gmail
I have got two Gmail accounts. The first one created four years ago and the second one a few days ago given that the former has been deleted.
In the Gmail labels, I always noticed that there was a ...
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Reorder labels order in Gmail [duplicate]
Is there a way to reorder labels in Gmail? There is one specific label I need to access more than the others and I would like it at the top.
I'm using Airmail 2 as my local IMAP client connected to ...
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Is there a way to automatically delete messages older than a certain date with a certain label?
I have a ton of filters created that label e-mails in my inbox as they come in, so that I can easily discern between what groups they belong to with a quick glimpse. There are e-mails that get nested ...
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Gmail label vs category
What is the difference between Gmail's category vs label? My take on it is that a category is specific for Gmail's "Inbox" feature and so is quite separate.
A follow-on question is how does this ...
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Is it possible to collapse the label list in Gmail?
I’m considering migrating from Outlook to Gmail for everything, which would mean copying a ton of .pst files going back several years. Most of this is filed away in several sets of relatively ...
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How to show all labels assigned to Gmail message?
I have mail that is coming in that I don't see in my inbox but when I look at "All Mail" I see it. How can I tell why it is not in my inbox or what labels have been assigned to it. Any way to tell ...
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Create Group Email from Labels
When I receive an email from a prospective client in my Gmail inbox, I place a specific label on it according to the query.
Is there a way to create a group email easily to send out to all recipients ...
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Gmail's filters for auto-labeling outgoing mail
I'm getting my mail in Gmail from base account and four additional accounts, fetched via POP3. For each account Gmail offered (when adding) auto-labelling mechanism, which I used. This seems to be ...
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Add an artificial "label" in the Gmail label list?
Because I extensively use the new Inbox by Gmail, and it's feature to bundle certain emails in my inbox once a day/week, but I also still use the standard Gmail, I like to see what's really in my ...
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How do I work around labels being applied to individual messages and not conversations in Gmail?
There are numerous reports of issues with Gmail labels, stars, unreads, message counts, and generally searching or counting combinations of these. Many of these seem to come from a common cause.
I ...
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