Thanks Zack. I understand the principle, it's the application that's difficult. I have a lot of filters and tracking down exactly why a specific message is triggering one is non-trivial. I've looked carefully and can't see anything that would cause this. The filters for these lists are extremely simple (basically just a match on "list: <list-address>") and although occasionally I might get a message CCed to me directly, which would explain it ending up in my Inbox, this is not the case with most of them. These are high-traffic lists with lots of parallel threads, most of which I don't participate in.
I've tried exporting the filter rules and searching for unsuspected keywords in the XML file, but no dice. It would be helpful if Gmail had a debugging option to trace exactly which filters were triggered by a given message, but I don't know if such a thing exists. Perhaps a new Labs feature? Maybe I'll suggest it. poc On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Zack (Doc) <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick, > > Have you checked your other filters and are sure none of them are firing > on those messages? I've had no problems with the "Skip Inbox" working for > me, in fact this thread has been skipping it perfectly as it was set to do. > We have to remember that according to Google, all filters, including spam, > act upon a message at once, and if they have contradictory actions, might > cause unexpected results. I've had a couple filters that did things like > that, acted on messages I didn't intend, and found through experimentation > which they were. Then when I edited the filters to not hit the posts I > didn't want them to hit, the problem went away. > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> (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. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gmail-users/_XKMxq3Fn_0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. > > > -- 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.
