Dumb question of the day (Googlemail)

[peanut]

I cannot for the life of me see where I can create an archive folder in googlemail. It really is a pitta format . Must have been designed by a committe of bind people on different continents.
You can't move or dragndrop emails
There is an 'Archive' button but its just a black hole as I have never found where the files actually have gone.

Help!

argggggh ok I found where the files go when you archive them. They go to the folder marked 'All files' well thats logical ...not

 

[cheadle hulme]

If you're running Vista, set up Windows mail and get all your googlemail to drop into there. Go to Settings>Forwarding POP.

Much easier to manage.

 

[peanut]

If you're running Vista, set up Windows mail and get all your googlemail to drop into there. Go to Settings>Forwarding POP.

Much easier to manage.

no win xp unfortunately

 

[derall]

If you're running Vista, set up Windows mail and get all your googlemail to drop into there. Go to Settings>Forwarding POP.

Much easier to manage.

You can do this with Thunderbird too, on any platform. As above, set up Gmail to forward POP. The set-up page will give you a list of all the settings, just create a new account in Thunderbird using these settings. Same thing applies to Yahoo Mail. Then you can create as many sub-folders in Thunderbird as you want to archive and organise your mail.

I haven't visited the Yahoo or GMail sites since the day I first set up my accounts - all mail is done through Thunderbird. Also makes things a lot easier for composing / saving drafts

 

[peanut]

some good advice here guys thanks

 

[bonj2]

it has 'tags' instead of folders

 

[peanut]

it has 'tags' instead of folders

thats cryptic Ben what has tags not folders?

 

[Black Sheep]

The original idea with googlemail was that you didn't need to organise things, just archive and search

how reliable this is, i do not know...

 

[derall]

As an aside...

The problems yesterday with Google flagging the entire internet as untrustworthy are persisting today in GMail - Messages are being flagged as 'This message may not be from who it says it is - beware of following links'

Check your spam / junk folders for anything that might have been filtered out