(Replying to myself) I turned off the tabbed Inbox. It made no difference.
poc On Saturday, 13 July 2013 11:57:38 UTC+1, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I use filters to classify several high-traffic mailing lists. Incoming > mails are tagged with the appropriate label and do not appear in my Inbox. > Thus I can review them at leisure without having to deal with each message > as it arrives. > > Which is kind of the whole point of filters. > > This has worked perfectly for several years, but recently the "Skip Inbox" > part of these filters has stopped working. Although the messages are > correctly tagged, they all appear in my Inbox. I thus have to select them > all and manually archive them to get the behaviour I want. This is > especially difficult to do on an Android phone (nb: the Android Gmail app > has no "select all" feature). I've careful reviewed the filters and can see > nothing wrong. BTW I'm using "list:" as the matching criterion for these > lists. > > I suspect this problem arose when the new Inbox tab feature appeared, but > I can't be sure. Currently I have these messages classified as Forum and > that pretty much works, but I still have to do the manual archiving, which > frankly sucks. Note that the problem already existed *before* I actually > set up the tabs thing, so it may be purely coincidence. > > I also have a Google Apps for Education account, with a similar setup (for > a different set of mailing lists) and it still works perfectly. > > poc > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
