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[Tamara Berger]

Cameron,

I DON'T HAVE the options "skip the inbox" and "apply the label." Not
within the option "filter messages like this," which is where I
understood you to say they were, or outside that option. Does Gmail
have these options?

Tamara
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 4:17 AM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>
> On 14Jun2018 21:09, Tamara Berger <brgrt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 4:32:56 AM UTC-4, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >> This is one reason to prefer the mailing list. You can subscribe here:
> >>   https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> [...]
> >> Wait for the first message or so and for that message choose GMail's "filter
> >> messages like this" action. I like to choose "Apply the label Python" and "Skip
> >> the inbox" for such things. Then you'll get a nice little "Python" mail folder
> >> in your collection where the list will accumulate. And less spam than the
> >> Group.
> >
> >Sounds great, Cameron. But Gmail doesn't give me the options "Apply the label
> >Python" and "Skip the inbox" under "Filter messages like this." I just get the
> >generic To, From, Has the words, Doesn't have.
>
> The first panel with to/from etc is just the message selection panel. It
> probably has the "includes the words" field already filled in with something
> that will match a python-list message. When you click "Create filter with this
> search" you get another panel with what to do with matching messages.
>
> I usually:
>
> - skip the Inbox
> - apply the label: click the "Choose label" dropdown and create a new label
>   "python" or whatever suits you
> - also apply filter to matching conversations, which will gather up all the
>   list messages that have already arrived and filter them, too
>
> Also note that you don't need a label per list. I file a few mailing lists in
> the same "python" folder.
>
> Alternatively, you might make a label per list; note that you can put a slash
> in a label eg "python/python-list" and GMail will treat that as a hierarchy,
> making a "python" category on the left with "python-list" underneath it. Might
> be handy of you join several lists and want to group them.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>