Yes, on the upper right is a Cog with an arrow, this is your settings
button click on it and click configure inbox. Actually you can also
set a list to be important mail so you can ignore it and then click on
starred and read it when you get the time.
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:15 PM, singhals <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, since you've said this -- any idea how to create a new
> "folder" at gmail? I want one called HELD MAIL where I can
> put extra-large messages with attachments until I can get to
> a hi-speed connex.
>
> Cheryl
>
> William Boswell wrote:
>> I use filters for a lot of lists I belong to and it does
>> prevent the inbox from getting overloaded.
>>
>> If you're using an outdated version of Outlook like I am
>> (2007), you go to "Tools" then "Rules and Alerts" on the
>> menu bar. From there you can create a rule to specify what
>> folder to send the emails to. I don't know if it's changed
>> much in later versions of Outlook.
>>
>> Like was mentioned, if you don't check that folder
>> frequently you may be responding to an old thread that has
>> been answered.
>>
>> Bill Boswell
>>
>> *From:*Wendy Howard [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 15, 2014 12:39 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] email list too much- inbox overload
>>
>> If you're concerned about the incoming mail clogging your
>> mail box, there are ways to manage the mail so that it is
>> out of the way until such time as you're ready to read it.
>> Create a filter to identify the list mail (by the address
>> for the list, [email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>) and divert that
>> mail to its own folder. Now it is out of the Inbox, and
>> safely waiting until you're ready to read it.
>>
>> Don't know how to set a filter in your mail box? Check your
>> service's help and/or look at the instructions I put on my
>> personal web site -
>> http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/How-to.htm#RuleFilterÂ
>> I wrote these years ago so some things may have changed, but
>> you should be able to work it out for whatever
>> service/program you're using.
>>
>> If this mailing list was changed to a message board (what
>> you're calling a 'forum'), it would loose me pretty quickly.
>> Not a fan of them, never have been. But that's just me and I
>> accept that not everyone thinks the way I do. ;-)
>>
>> Hope this helps. :-)
>>
>> Wendy
>>
>> Annie Delyth Stratton said the following on 15/06/2014 12:48:
>>
>> This would be much more useful as a forum I could check
>> into as needed. I have to unsubscribe because most
>> posts are not relevant to me, and get in the way of my
>> work and other emails.
>
>
>
>
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