I think this was already explained in this thread, but Gmail uses labels
to display your emails. The important label is just a label added to a
message. When you look in your important folder, you're just seeing your
messages that have the important label. You're not seeing duplicates of
your messages. You only have one copy of your message in Gmail.
The all mail folder just shows you all of the email in your account
regardless of what labels each message has.
I just use my in box. As I read messages, I either delete them, move
them to a folder or save them to reply to later. When I delete them,
they get moved to the trash folder, and they'll be removed from my
account in about 30 days. I check out the all mail folder if I can't
find a message, such as when I'm not sure what folder I might have moved
it to. I haven't gotten into the habit of using the important folder.
On 23/09/16 05:03, 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone wrote:
Hi all. I have read this thread, more or less anyway, and just have a
couple of comments.
When first I noticed this mailbox, it it irritated me! Anyway, I then
discovered that, at least with Gmail and Thunderbird, you don't have to
see the box and can just ignore it!
Are used to read from that mailbox on my phone and do it first, so that
I didn't get duplicates in my inbox. However, now I don't do that. I
have simply forget it! I just read all my mail in the all mailbox when
ever possible because then I think I have seen it all and don't want to
bother any more to look for any!
I hope someone finds this helpful and that's all I can offer on the
subject! :-)
On 23 Sep 2016, at 01:26, Alan Lemly <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Mary,
I took the postbox reference to mean accessing the gmail account via the
web interface and one's browser. You might be right though.
Alan
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mary Otten
*Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2016 6:55 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: What is the "important" box in Gmail?
Thanks, Alan. It does sound like this was intended for a particular app.
Post box, which I assume is a Mail app for the Mac. Maybe it's possible
to hide this folder on the phone. Kind of doubt it, but whatever.
Anyway, thank you for posting.
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 22, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Mary,
Following my signature is the text from a page which discusses the
Google Important folder and how to re-train its intelligence or how
to unsubscribe from it. Be aware that this information is from a
sighted perspective so I have no clue whether the settings
referenced are accessible. The information pasted comes from this
website:
http://support.postbox-inc.com/hc/en-us/articles/204362930-Gmail-Important-Folder
I'm pretty sure that like all things Gmail, no actual folders are
involved. Gmail groups everything based on labels and I suspect if
you're seeing the same message in multiple "folders", it's because
it has more than one Gmail label assigned to it. You would normally
be the one charged with assigning these labels but it sounds as if
Google takes it upon itself to try and tag important messages based
on some algorithm.
Good luck and I hope this is helpful.
Alan Lemly
*Gmail Important Folder*
Having lots of unimportant e-mails labeled “Important” can be
annoying. The “Important” label is assigned to a message by Google,
based on Google’s adaptive understanding of your interests and
priorities. There are a couple of things you can do about this. You
can do either, or both.
*The Slow Fix: Re-Training Google*
You can re-train Google about what’s important to you by removing
the label from each message you don’t consider important. If there’s
message that you think is important that Google’s has not labeled
properly, you can assign the Important label to it. Eventually,
Google’s behavior will more accurately reflect your wishes.
Here’s how to remove a message’s label in Postbox:
1. Select an e-mail in Postbox’s message list.
2. Hover your cursor over the Important label in the upper-right
corner of the message and click x when it appears to let Google
know the message is not important.
Here's how to add a message's label in Postbox:
1. Select an e-mail in Postbox’s message list.
2. In the upper-right corner of the message, you’ll see a popup menu.
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3. In this popup menu, select the /Assign Label/ submenu.
4. Assign the Important label to the message to let Google know the
message is important.
*The Quick Fix: Hiding the Important Folder in Postbox*
You can unsubscribe from Google’s Important folder, so you don’t
have to see or deal with it. (It remains on Google’s servers. It’s
just hidden in Postbox.)
Here are instructions
<http://support.postbox-inc.com/entries/484524-subscribing-to-imap-folders>
for unsubscribing from the Important folder.
After unsubscribing from the Important folder:
1. Go to /Postbox (OS X)/Tools (Windows) > Preferences/Options >
Accounts > [your account] > Advanced…/
2. Check the/Show only subscribed folders/ option.
3. Restart Postbox.
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mary Otten
*Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:37 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: What is the "important" box in Gmail?
I'm not exactly sure when this folder turned up. It could be, that
it has been there for a long time. But I see that it has a lot of
messages in it. Some of them seem to be duplicates that her and
other folders, but I'm not sure about all. And if they are
duplicates, I don't need them twice. Anyway, if somebody knows how
to get rid of it or how to keep it from filling up, that would be great.
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 22, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Rajmund <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mary, this folder, for me, was there even before I got an IOS
device. Not too sure whether you can get rid of it, and if so,
how, or what's it's purpose.
Sent from a Braille Sense
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From: Mary Otten <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: VIPhone 'ChalmersAS' via <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 2:54 pm
Subject: What is the "important" box in Gmail?
Hi all,
I have noticed that I have a box in my Gmail account called
"important". I never set this up, nor did I specifically
flag messages or senders whose posts should be put there.
Yet I have something like 200 messages in this box.. How did
that happen? How can I stop that? Or how can I just get rid
of this folder, which I did not create?
Mary
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