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Excluding messages with a given label is ignored if other messges in the conversation lack the label
You can do searches that exclude certain labels. That is, searches like this will do what you expect:
(label:MyLabel1 AND NOT label:inbox AND NOT label:MyBadLabel1)
That search will show you only ...
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How do I make a new Category on my Gmail Account?
The categories are created by Google and not user defined. You can create labels and attach them to emails but what you're asking is not possible
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How to mark all emails as read on a certain label with several sub labels
select the label, in the search bar, it will show label:mylabel - add label:unread and search.
select all messages by ticking the top left checkbox
if there are more unread messages than can be ...
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Gmail Hide Left Panel/Sidebar: Labels, Inbox, Everything!
The solution I ended up with is from this site.
Install the "Stylish" Chrome/Firefox plugin
Install the "Gmail autohide sidebar" style
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How to remove multiple Gmail labels
I wrote a script to add to Google Scripts.
function removeLabel() {
var labels = [];
labels = GmailApp.getUserLabels();
//Loop through all Labels
for (var i = 0; i < labels....
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How do I make a new Category on my Gmail Account?
A feature that's not everyone knows about Gmail is the subaddressing feature.
It's possible to add a +TEXT at the end of your email address, like yourema[email protected] (where "TEXT" can be whatever ...
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Gmail search for unstarred emails in a label
The issue is that the star is associated with a message, not the entire conversation. So when you use:
is:starred it returns all conversations where at least one message in the conversation has a ...
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How do I make a new Category on my Gmail Account?
One solution is to create labels, and then use multiple inboxes from the labs section of settings.
You can then have sections of your inbox that only show messages with that label.
This solution ...
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What's the difference between the Gmail label buttons?
When you have multiple messages/conversations selected and you click the labels button there are three options for the list of labels presented:
empty: none of the messages/conversations selected are ...
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How can I exclude archived messages from the multiple inboxes view?
You've got it a bit backwards there. "Archive" simply means to remove the "Inbox" label. So, if something is "unarchived", it means it's still in your Inbox.
label:Family in:inbox
Just a note: AND ...
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View filter(s) that are currently being applied to an email message
Unfortunately neither the GmailApp API nor the advanced Gmail API have any way to read your filters let alone what filters were applied to an email.
Assigning each filter a unique label to assign ...
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How do I limit search to a folder in Gmail?
By folder, you mean label right? If you navigate to a label, it should already populate the search bar with the format needed. So if I have a label called "Finances" the search should be
label:...
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Prevent Gmail from assigning a category when the message has a user-defined label (Multiple Inboxes enabled)
The correct category to assign via a filter, would be "Personal".
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How to notify another mail about incoming mail with a specific subject or label in Gmail?
I ran into the same issue here 5 years later. Neither Gmail or IFTTT solved the problem for me.
I signed up on https://zapier.com/ using my Google account. Using this, I was able to make a "zap" that'...
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Different labels from when email is addressed to me and when only copied to me
To get around the fact that "to" usually means "to or cc or bcc" try using the minus operator. Adjust for BCC as needed. With these rules I believe BCC will still land in your inbox but I did not ...
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Changing all occurrences of one label to another when there is more than one page of results
Go into Label A and click the checkbox within the Select button to select all of the messages on the page.
Look above the first message but below the action buttons, and you should see a notification ...
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How is stars different from labels in Gmail?
You could consider stars to be another label; you have flexibility in how to use them. Stars are, however, treated a bit differently than labels.
For instance, there is a search operator for stars: ...
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How do I make a new Category on my Gmail Account?
On the left hand panel, you need to "Create a New Label" and add the name of what you would like your new category to be. Once you've done that, you can select the emails you would like and apply ...
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Is it possible to batch create or template Gmail filters?
Actually there is a way (I use it myself).
Please follow these steps once:
Go to your Gmail account --> Settings --> Filters and blocked addresses.
Find your "typical" filter from your existing ...
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Excluding messages with a given label is ignored if other messges in the conversation lack the label
As was already explained in the question, filters apply labels to individual incoming messages, so a conversation could have messages with and without the label that the user is looking to exclude ...
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"Mute" alternative for conversations that aren't in the inbox
After encountering the same problem, encountering your thread, and leaving sad, a hack just occured to me. Manual muting:
What if we make a tag "MUTED" and add it to conversations we no longer want ...
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Search for emails belonging ONLY to the specified label
Not the world's best way but, use the built in labels to your advantage. This assumes you don't care about labels that GMail applies, like Social, Updates, Promotions, or Forums. These labels are not ...
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How to make Gmail automatically label incoming emails
Open mail in Gmail to or from address: [email protected]
Click More
Chose Filter messages like this from dropdown list
In the to textfield enter your email address: [email protected]
In the from ...
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How can I back up all emails stored in my Gmail account?
Backup your Gmail account for free, without 3rd party software
preserving labels, chats, threads, attachment and whatnot, in a usable portable format
The canonical way to backup the whole lot of your ...
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How do I work around labels being applied to individual messages and not conversations in Gmail?
The following work flow helps.
Get into conversation mode if not already there. (General settings)
For each label:
Select the label
Check the box above the list to select all in the list.
Check the ...
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See filters for Google Inbox Finance/Purchases labels
Try these in the search bar(with clicking on the category name on the left side):
category:updates
category:forums
category:social
category:promotions
Three special category:
Purchases category:...
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Problem with filtering and archiving Gmail
Your problem is the order that the filters were applied.
If messageA is directed by filterx to get labelX and told to skip the inbox; then filterb that applies label2016 never sees messageA.
The ...
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