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Options include the following:

Skip the Inbox. Drop it directly in your archive, bypassing the Inbox
and putting the message in the All Mail inbox. Handy when you want
to keep an eye on a certain subject, but you're not interested in imme-
diately reviewing every item that comes your way.

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Star It. Put a star on it so that it grabs your attention and also moves
it to the Starred message list.

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Apply the Label. Labels are for dividing up messages. hink of them
as message folders, or as tags for your e-mail. From this action list,
you can also generate new labels. I recommend one label per topic.
For example, maybe you're monitoring PubMed and Google News
for autism. You're more interested in the scientiic research from
PubMed. So you'd label both of them autism , move one to the archive,
and star the other one so that it gets your attention.

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Yes, you can apply multiple actions to one ilter. You can't do two
things that would cancel each other out, such as move it to the
archive and then move it to the trash, but you can move it to the
archive and apply a label, for example, or apply a label and then
forward the mail to a different e-mail address.

. Forward It. Forward the e-mail to a speciied address. Note this is
not the same as using a POP client to download your GMail—we'll
cover that momentarily.

Delete It. hrow it away! .

With regard to information trapping, ilters are probably GMail's most
important feature. But there are other settings on GMail you may want to
tweak, especially if you want to download your e-mail.

pOp downloading and other GMail settings
To access GMail's other settings, click the Settings link on the upper-right of
your mailbox. A page of settings divided into tabs displays ( Figure 10.4 ):

he General tab is mostly cosmetic. How many Conversations do you
want to see per page, do you want e-mail snippets showing or not, etc.

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he Accounts tab lets you use a diferent From address on your e-mail
(you will have to verify that address before you can change it).

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