Filter for an Unread Mail folder

[Agunat]

I would like to set up a filter for unread mail to go to label for unread mail.  I know Gmail will not let me use the term unread so I called the label "Not Read" no problem there.  No,w, how can I get unread mail into it?  I know Gmail will show me any unread mail on the top of my inbox list.  However it does not do this on the Gmail app for my Android Android phone.  I want the label for my phone sometimes I will have an email a few weeks old way down the list.

Bob

[Zack (Doc)]

Well... you can create a filter to mark mail with that label which has the search term "is:unread".. GMail may warn you that it won't work; but it will.  You'll have to remember to remove that label when it's no longer of use to you.

Can't you perform searches in the gmail app? (I don't have an android, so I don't know).  If you can; you can just use that search and have all the unread, regardless of labels, in front of you.

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Agunat <newma...@gmail.com> wrote:

I would like to set up a filter for unread mail to go to label for unread mail.  I know Gmail will not let me use the term unread so I called the label "Not Read" no problem there.  No,w, how can I get unread mail into it?  I know Gmail will show me any unread mail on the top of my inbox list.  However it does not do this on the Gmail app for my Android Android phone.  I want the label for my phone sometimes I will have an email a few weeks old way down the list.

Bob

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[Andy]

Filters are applied to incoming messages, and only to them.  Every new message is unread when it arrives, so basically the Filter is just adding a label to every new message.

A Filter does not remove the label once the message is read, because as noted above they only apply to incoming messages when they arrive.

To apply your "Not Read" label to existing unread messages, don't use a Filter for that.  Just search for "is:unread", select all, and apply your Label.  (When you set up a Filter, Gmail will also offer to do that for you; but it's not really the Filter that does it.)

It sounds like what you might want is a Quick Link, with one of them set to search for "is:unread".  The Quick Links function is one of the Gmail Labs.  By any chance, does the Android version support the Quick Links lab?

Andy