I settled on the same strategy for handling email myself. Another nice thing about rules, is that you can run them manually. In other words, you can set up a rule to send all of the email from a given list or from a bug tracking system to a certain folder, but you don't have to run this rule automatically. When you want to process those messages, you can just run the rule that one time and then go in and handle those messages later. I did this with rules in Thunderbird, but I assume you can do the same thing with Gmail.
Of course, this is what works for me. I'm not saying it's what works for everyone. On 08/06/12 11:07, Wayne Merritt wrote: > I have between 5800 and 6000 messages in my Gmail system, nearly all > of which have some sort of label attached to them, and many messages > have more than one label to make them easier to find. Labels are the > bomb in Gmail! Early on I chose to set the filter and label for a > group of messages, like a mailing list, but have them go to the Inbox. > I found over time that I was not reading messages that came in with a > certain filter. If you're subscribed to many lists and don't stay on > top of it, the amount of email can quickly get out of hand. So I > prefer to have messages go to the Inbox, even if they do have a label > on them, and then decide what to do with them from there. This has > helped to make managing mail lots easier for me. > > Regards, > Wayne > > On 6/4/12, Scott Howell <scottn3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes setting up the rules is pretty easy. >> >> On Jun 3, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: >> >>> Hi Scott, >>> Perhaps slightly off-topic, but is it easy to set up filters etc in Gmail? >>> Reply off list if more appropriate. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3 Jun 2012, at 23:42, Scott Howell <scottn3...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Danielle, >>>> >>>> No you cannot. However, if you have a Gmail account you can setup labels >>>> and filters which will accomplish what you want. >>>> >>>> On Jun 3, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Danielle McCullough wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Does anybody know if you can set up message rules on the iPhone? Four >>>>> example, sometimes I don't know who my email is from, especially >>>>> witthis group, because it doesn't say vIPHONE in the subject line, so >>>>> if it is a name I don't recognise, I just think it's spam, and >>>>> usually end up deleting it. This is quite irritating, especially if >>>>> the emails have weird subject lines which seems to have happened quite >>>>> a bit recently. >>>>> >>>>> If anyone has any ideas, even if it means getting a secondary email >>>>> client, please do let me know. I would be very interested in this. >>>>> >>>>> Best wishes, >>>>> >>>>> Danielle >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>> Google Group. >>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> > > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
