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How can I not have the emails of a gmail label show up in my inbox?

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"Your inbox" means the inbox on gmail.com, or your inbox on your local mail program ? – Gnoupi Aug 10 '09 at 17:14
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How do you apply your labels? Is it manual or automated?

If automated then you have a filter doing it, and you'd want to edit that filter (Go to settings, then the Filters tab). As Ryan mentioned, in step 2 of the filter you'd check the box that says "skip the inbox".

If you're doing it manually but it could be automated, you should create a filter (again, go to Settings, then the Filters tab). Again, in step 2 of the filter you'd check the box that says "skip the inbox".

If you're doing it manually and you don't want/can't use filters, then just change the way you apply the label. Instead of selecting a label using the Labels dropdown, select it using the Move To dropdown. That one applies the label and then removes the message from the inbox (archives it).

If you want to archive (remove from inbox) all emails that already have a label defined, then do this:

  1. In the gmail search bar, type in "label:" and then the name of the label. So, if you wanted to archive everything labeled "friends" you'd do: "label:friends".
  2. Run the search (hit Search Mail)
  3. Click on the "All" link next to "Select:". This should be under the button bar at the top (underneath the Archive button). This will select all messages in the current page of results.
  4. If there is more than one page of results there should be a message at the top that says (for me) "All 20 conversations on this page are selected." Next to that should be a "Select all conversations that match this search" link. Click on that. Now, ALL emails with that label are selected.
  5. Click on the Archive button.
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Don't forget to tick the "Skip the Inbox" box if you don't want them to appear with all your new mail (ie: newsletters or other junk mail). – A. Scagnelli Aug 10 '09 at 18:03
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Create a new filter (or edit an existing filter). On step 2, check the box that says "skip the inbox"

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I don't see anywhere to edit labels. I am on the 'manage labels' page and it just lets you rename show/hide/remove them. – user3183 Aug 10 '09 at 17:30
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Actually, this solution works if your label is set by a filter. In this case you ask the filter to skip the inbox as well as setting the label. This solution won't work for labels that you put yourself. – Gnoupi Aug 10 '09 at 18:01
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I can't think of any simple, direct way to do that currently.

If you have filters that apply the label, you can modify them to archive the mails too, but that wouldn't work for mails that you labelled yourself.

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CAn the person who downvoted explain why ? – nagul Aug 10 '09 at 18:14
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A recent Labs feature will turn off the labels appearing in your Inbox. The label will continue to be applied, and you'll still be able to view all items of a specific label just like you were always able to.

The change is only cosmetic.

Lifehacker had something on it recently; that was where I heard about it.

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