On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Zack (Doc) <[email protected]> wrote:
That brings up an interesting point. If you're using conversation view (I
> can't imagine Mute working without it, but...) it's a common mistake (I
> make it all the time) to think of threads as labeled, when in fact it's
> individual messages that are labeled.
>
I had been thinking about that.
Except, I think the "muted" tag must work differently in that regard.
Every new message in the same thread presumably arrives without that tag
applied to it, so Gmail should be able to keep the thread muted even if
only some of the messages carry that tag.
Unless perhaps they changed the algorithm recently, without realizing that
what they did killed the Mute feature.
That's an idea... turn off conversation view and see which messages of that
> thread are ACTUALLY in the inbox when it happens next. Then you can focus
> on anything different about them.
>
This is what I did tonight:
I found the conversation sitting in my Inbox again. I muted it again (you
have to un-mute it first, then re-mute it).
Within 3 minutes, it is back in my Inbox. Why? Because, by coincidence, a
new message just arrived. I muted it AGAIN.
Then I turned off Conversation View and found all the messages. All of
them have the "muted" tag, *except three*.
I select one of them and mute it, It picks up the "muted" tag.
I then select the other two and mute them too. They MOMENTARILY show the
"muted" tag, then within a second, it disappears! This is weird. And 100%
repeatable. It is impossible to attach a "muted" tag to those two messages
and have it stick. Teflon?
I check the messages (Show Original) for anything unique to me. Only the
very first header line ("Delivered-To: <...>") is, and it's in every
message. My name/address appear nowhere else.
Then I noticed the three messages that did NOT have the "muted" tag, have a
subtle difference in their Subject line, compared to the others; which
means they are in a different Conversation than the one that's been giving
me all this trouble.
So I don't know what is going on. I think it's haunted.
Andy
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