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Subject:Re: Opinions on Other In Box? From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:54:30 -0500
Edit your filters and check the "Skip the Inbox (Archive It)" box on
the second config page for each filter.
The only time I ever have threads appearing in my Inbox is when
someone - without changing the subject - responds directly to me while
the thread is ongoing on the listserv.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Combs, Richard
<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> wrote:
> McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
>
>> In my Gmail, I also get lots of e-mails, and I've got several
>> filters set, but while they seem to get applied to incoming messages,
>> they don't trigger an action. I still have to check-check-check...
>> and then "move checked to 'techwrl'" or wherever.
>>
>> That is, I can look at a message that's been hidden from my
>> inbox to the "techwrl" filter, and it has "techwrl" applied
>> to it, and that makes sense... but I can look at my crowded
>> inbox and see 55 new messages with the "techwrl" flag, but
>> they did not automatically get segregated. I still have to
>> do the manual shunting, dammit! (Yes, I know that the mail
>> is all still in one huge folder, but the relevant effect of
>> a filter should be to make filtered messages visible only
>> when that filter is viewed, not when the main inbox is viewed.)
>
> On the second step of creating (or editing) a filter, where you select "Apply the label" and choose a label, you can also select "Skip the Inbox (Archive it)." And some other stuff.
>
> HTH!
>
> Richard G. Combs
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