RE: Opinions on Other In Box?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

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
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-903-6372
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