Hi. so happy it worked for you. I totally love gmail too. Maria Chapman bubbygirl1972@xxxxxxxxx "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 21/05/2013, at 2:42 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Maria, > > I did as you suggested and it worked like a charm! There was even a checkbox > to process messages already in the inbox, so, everything that I labeled and > filtered was taken out of the inbox and, from what I gather, archived and > also moved to the folder pertaining to the label each message was given. I > am really amazed at how powerful GMail can be! With a bit of tweaking, > managing email is so easy. And, the really nice thing, using IMAP, is that, > the GMail folder structure on my iPhone is identical to the one in Mail on my > iMac! Nice! > > Thanks again for your help! :) > > Russell > On 2013-05-20, at 5:48 AM, Maria & Joe Chapman <bubbygirl1972@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> HI. when you set up your filters on the web did you check skip inbox? >> >> >> regards >> Maria and crew from australia >> email: >> bubbygirl1972@xxxxxxxxx >> check out >> www.95-the-mix.com >> where we play lots of great music >> >> >> >> >> On 20/05/2013, at 8:17 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I'm changing my main email to my GMail account, and have a couple of >>> questions. >>> >>> I have GMail set up in my Apple Mail using IMAP. I am finding that >>> messages are showing up in multiple folders in GMail, and I would like to >>> minimize this behaviour. I found out that one can log into GMail on the >>> web, choose settings and then the "Labels" tab, and select the labels you >>> want to show in IMAP. I chose to hide the "All Mail" folder in IMAP, but, >>> it's still showing up in Apple Mail. How do I hide the All Mail folder? >>> >>> Also, I created a new label called "VoiceOver". I then went to "Filters" >>> in my web GMail account, and set up a filter so that any email message sent >>> to macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx will be labeled with the VoiceOver label I >>> created earlier. This is pretty sweet. All messages from this group now >>> show up in the VoiceOver folder in my Apple Mail account. The problem is >>> that they are still also showing up in the "Important" and "All Mail" and, >>> the main GMail inbox folders. Is there a way to have these messages only >>> show up in the VoiceOver folder, or, at least in the VoiceOver folder and >>> All Mail folder, but not the main inbox or Important folders? Hope this >>> all makes sense. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Russell> >>>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>>> >>>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >>>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >> >