All Mail

[David Hogg]

At present my Inbox contains about 368 "conversations" whereas All Mail
contains over 740. Can anyone please explain the point of the All Mail
box? Or direct me to some web document containing an explanation? In
particular, I don't understand how messages get into the All Mail box
in the first place. I have not moved them there myself at any time. So
they must have got there in some other way. And does this not mean that
there are messages I have not read? Furthermore, since some at least of
the messages in All Mail must also be present in the Inbox at the same
time, doesn't this amount to an unnecessary use of available memory
capacity?

And is there any way of comparing the two (Inbox and All Mail) to find
out exactly which messages are in All Mail, but not in the Inbox?

[Derek]

when you archive messages you can find them in all mail. the whole
point of having all mail is so you can archive and search for messages
later without cluttering your inbox.

[pat]

All Mail is great. I don't know of any other service where you can look
through everything you've filed all in one place when you want to.
Mostly search will do it, but sometimes you need to just have a look.

[Kishyr Ramdial]

It also contains all sent messages.

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[Kishyr Ramdial]

The following link should be more useful:
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7186

[drd...@gmail.com]

8277 conversations for me.
You are currently using 96 MB (10%) of your 1000 MB

[Ashok Chandran]

1803 conversations for me.
You are currently using 113 MB (11%) of your 1000 MB

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:48:50 -0800, drd...@gmail.com <drd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 8277 conversations for me.
> You are currently using 96 MB (10%) of your 1000 MB
>
>

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[Dean-me]

I'm not sure how related this is. I personally have my Inbox saying how
many emails are unread.. Say Inbox (7), but there wont be quite that
many unread in my inbox. There's none in my All Mail.. like "What
tha?". I found one in Sent Mail, but when that was read, and I cannot
find any unread in any folders, it says Inbox (1), even though I cannot
find one anywhere. Weird?

[Gordon Stewart]

put this in your search box :-

label:Unread

or

is:Unread

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[Eustace Tilley]

It may be that the unread item has scrolled off the first page.

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[David Hogg]

Kishyr, I'm just getting round to an answer. You say that the All Mail
folder also contains sent messages. That is certainly the case. But if
you move to the Sent Mail folder there doesn't seem to be any way of
moving the messages you have sent to the All Mail folder. If you move
to Inbox you do have an Archive botton at the top. The Archive button
is not available in the Sent Mail folder. And you can't move messages
from the Sent Mail folder to the All Mail folder.

So there is something I don't really get here. In the first place
what's the point of archiving messages from the Inbox? The Inbox
messages are already in the All Mail folder. Secondly, what's the point
of archiving messages from the Sent Mail folder, for the same reason.
(And, additionally, as I've already said, there does not seem to be any
way of archiving sent messages.

[Derek]

message in the sent mail and all mail labels are already archived.
although messages in the inbox are already in the all mail label, they
are still visible... archiving just moves the messags out of the way
so you don't have to see them when you login to your account.

[Kishyr Ramdial]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:01:02 -0800, David Hogg <david...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kishyr, I'm just getting round to an answer. You say that the All Mail
> folder also contains sent messages. That is certainly the case. But if
> you move to the Sent Mail folder there doesn't seem to be any way of
> moving the messages you have sent to the All Mail folder. If you move
> to Inbox you do have an Archive botton at the top. The Archive button
> is not available in the Sent Mail folder. And you can't move messages
> from the Sent Mail folder to the All Mail folder.

Correct. This is because when you send an email, it's automatically
placed in the "All Mail" folder. I think of the "Archive" button as
kind of a "Hide from Inbox" button where it just hides my selected
messages from my inbox. I guess one doesn't need to hide their sent
messages mainly because you don't really (well, I don't) go into my
sent messages that often - and if I do, it's usually to check the last
five sent messages. Also, there isn't an "Archive" button in the Sent
Mail folder because once the recipients reply, then that becomes a
thread/conversation rather than a single email - and you can archive
that.

> So there is something I don't really get here. In the first place
> what's the point of archiving messages from the Inbox? The Inbox
> messages are already in the All Mail folder. Secondly, what's the point
> of archiving messages from the Sent Mail folder, for the same reason.
> (And, additionally, as I've already said, there does not seem to be any
> way of archiving sent messages.

I guess archiving is just a way to neaten/sort out your inbox. In
Gmail, the concept of "labels" comes into play where, as you probably
already know, it doesn't act like a folder (as in if you label a
message, it doesn't move it). To me, labels are just wonderful. But
sometimes your inbox may get congested with things that you may not
neccessarily want to put in there. Take this group for example. I'm
kind of a neat-freak (only when it comes to email ;) so instead of
having all my Gmail-Generation threads and topics being kept in my
inbox, I have a filter set up to label it and archive it. Therefore,
it behaves like a folder where it appears to be moved. I guess that
Gmail's main reason for the archive button was to make the user feel
comfortable in having an Inbox with what he or she wants, *but*
doesn't want to delete/remove.

I'm not sure if I'm making much sense, just let me know if you're
getting confused about what I just typed out.