Gmail Bug Part 2
It appears that the issue is that behind the scenes (or at least relating to search and filters), labels apply to individual messages. Apparently when a filter is set to add a label, it will add that label to the message, and not to the conversation that the message is a part of. This is the only way that different messages in the same conversation may be labeled differently. Every other interface that Gmail provides to the label functionality relates to conversations, not messages. This turns out to be annoying. :-/
dunk said,
June 19, 2005 @ 10:00 am
I noticed this as well, was a bummer to find out labels are inconsisent between attaching themselves to emails or conversations.
i noticed it as well while doing some complicated searches to clear my email box based on labels that were applied by filters. (I label all incoming email as ‘-Now’, i wanted to see what messages existed in my inbox that weren’t labeled ‘-Now’)
Another note, it seems like filters run and apply lables on outgoing emails. just make a filter w/out to/from in it, and check ur sent-mail. you’ll see it got labeled.
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