Motorola DROID 2 Global, Manual

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CHAPTER 9: Email on Your DROID
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If you don’t ever want a message again, by all means delete it. Email sent to the trash is
permanently deleted after thirty days. However, messages you might need later should be
archived. To archive a message from the Web, select the check box next to the message, and
then press the Archive button. It’s on the left side of the buttons above the inbox, as shown in
Figure 9–1.
Stars flag
important
messages.
Messages
are grouped
by subject.
High priority
messages are in
the Priority
Inbox.
Labels replace folders
for sorting messages.
Archive messages to
remove them from the
Inbox.
Mark low priority
messages as
unimportant.
Report spam to
train Gmail’s spam
filter.
Label important
messages as high
priority.
Figure 9–1. Gmail Web.
When you archive a message, you move it out of the inbox. You can still find the
message by using the “all mail” label or by using the Gmail search box. For messages of
low importance, you may even want to set up a filter that archives the messages
immediately so they never clog your inbox. We’ll explain how to do that later in this
chapter.
NOTE : Gmail messages are grouped into conversations. Rather than showing each message in
the order they arrived, conversations are clusters of messages to and from a person or group.
The messages are stacked together, so you can view the conversation in context, and they
appear chronologically in your inbox according to the last message received. Any actions you
apply to one message in the conversation will apply to all of them. If you want to view or act on
the messages individually, just click the “Expand all” link to the right of the message.
If you keep seeing a super long conversation that you’d rather ignore, use the “mute” option to
archive the current and future messages in that conversation. The messages will still be available
and marked as unread. They just won’t be in your inbox.