APB, Labels are applied to individual emails. However, if any one email in a conversation has a label applied to it then clicking on that label's view will display the entire conversation. If you turn conversation mode off then clicking on that label's view will only display the individual emails that have had that label applied to them.
So if you manually apply a label to an existing conversation then all of the emails in that conversation get labeled with that label. If another email comes along that belongs to that conversation, it will NOT have the label applied to it, although you'd hardly be able to tell that in conversation view. Of course if you're applying labels via filter then each email that comes along that matches the filter's criteria gets the label. I'm still not understanding what it is that you're trying to do. It sounds like you're trying to apply labels to separate those things you've read and processed from those you haven't. Why not just archive things are you read them? On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:20 AM APB <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to isolate conversations which have only 1 > message in them. > > All the conversations in question are assigned a label by a filter. > (Let's call the label "ABC".) > > As I read the new conversations, I manually assign an additional label to > them. (Let's call it "XYZ".) > > It seems to me that if I search for "label:ABC -{label:XYZ}", I should see > only the ABC conversations which do not have the XYZ label, but it's not > working. > > It appears that when a new message arrives in one of the conversations > I've labeled XYZ, it sort of overrides the XYZ label, so that my search > does not exclude the conversation. > > But labels are applied to whole conversations, not just individual > messages, are they not? > > (I realize that there are a couple of workarounds: > 1. Create a filter to add UVW to all the messages, and then *remove* it > when I read the new conversation; > 2. Mute each new conversation as I read it; > but > 1. Removing a label is more work than adding one; > 2. I want the old conversations with new messages to appear in my Inbox.) > > Any suggestions? > > TIA, APB > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- Regards, Kenneth -- 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/d/optout.
