Gmail: Organize emails into folders
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Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible, in your Gmail box, to create various folders and redirect incoming emails to one or another of these folders based on the sender's address?
My search in the Gmail help section has not been very fruitful! They talk about "filters" and "labels" but, typical, they don't explain the purpose of filters and labels! So it's not clear!
Thank you!
I was wondering if it is possible, in your Gmail box, to create various folders and redirect incoming emails to one or another of these folders based on the sender's address?
My search in the Gmail help section has not been very fruitful! They talk about "filters" and "labels" but, typical, they don't explain the purpose of filters and labels! So it's not clear!
Thank you!
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Hello,
So let's clearly distinguish between the two...
The labels are somewhat like the folders in your Gmail. You give them a name and a color to easily identify them, and then you fill them with emails. The difference between a folder and a label is mainly that to put an email in a folder, you move it. For a label, you assign a keyword and then only display the emails that have that keyword. From your point of view, it doesn't change anything.
The filters are actions to apply to emails when they arrive in the inbox. For example, you can detect all emails from a specific address / or those whose subject or body contains keywords, etc., and apply an action to them. For instance: apply a label to them and archive them.
There you go.
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Mihawk
"As long as we don't do it, we don't know."
So let's clearly distinguish between the two...
The labels are somewhat like the folders in your Gmail. You give them a name and a color to easily identify them, and then you fill them with emails. The difference between a folder and a label is mainly that to put an email in a folder, you move it. For a label, you assign a keyword and then only display the emails that have that keyword. From your point of view, it doesn't change anything.
The filters are actions to apply to emails when they arrive in the inbox. For example, you can detect all emails from a specific address / or those whose subject or body contains keywords, etc., and apply an action to them. For instance: apply a label to them and archive them.
There you go.
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Mihawk
"As long as we don't do it, we don't know."
I have the same problem, I can move the received emails and they are deleted from the inbox but for the sent messages, I can move them but they still remain in the sent messages. I don't know how to do it.