Comments on: How To Auto-Archive Emails in Gmail?

By: Ganesh Pathak

Ganesh Pathak — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:39:17 +0000

Thanks.., This article helped me alot.

By: Ruud Kous

Ruud Kous — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:32:12 +0000

See here http://www.internettipoftheweek.com/427/how-to-automatically-archive-old-messages-from-your-gmail-inbox/
This provides a means to archive all mail older than a certain date.
The only disadvantage here is that it is an absolute date (yyyy/mm/dd), not a relative age (e.g. older than 3 months). So the filter only works once, after which you have to change the date. But at least it is something.

By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:54:10 +0000

@Matt – Right now there is no option to automatically archive emails after you have read it without clicking on the archive button

By: Matt Stephens

Matt Stephens — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:57:54 +0000

P. S. The only auto-archiving option I see when creating a filter is “Skip the Inbox (Archive It).” However, I don’t want anything to be archived until after I’ve read it.

Thanks for your help!

By: Matt Stephens

Matt Stephens — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:53:17 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. Your approach works well for mail you anticipate (and hence know the address, subject, etc. to filter). But what about mail you do not anticipate, i.e., things that are not regularly recurring? Is there a way to automatically “archive” or filter all mail once it’s been readâ€”w/o clicking the archive button and w/o setting up multiple filters?

By: Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:12:58 +0000

Not sure your approach is doing what most people would think of as ‘archiving’ (auto or otherwise). That’s more like ‘auto-filtering’ (which could very well be why google calls the feature ‘creating a filter’…) or ‘rules’. Archiving usually means moving messages from point A to point B after some amount of time (e.g. archive items that have been in your inbox for more than 90 days to a ‘Historical’ folder, or label) Thanks for the steps, though!

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:08:58 +0000

Hi and thank you for your useful information, however, my gmail still does not Archive automatically. I have to select all then archive manually, or else, it filters, but a copy of it still stays in “Inbox”.

Thanks for your help in advance.
Frank

By: Nergal

Nergal — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:23:34 +0000

Awesome! Thank you SO much! This really helped me, and I couldn't find the answer to this question anywhere on Gmail's help page. I too use gmail as a biz account and have ~500 emails per day so this was the biggest issue i had on using gmail.