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Appreciation of the mark-all-as-read button

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54 points phony-account | 4 comments | 17 Nov 24 05:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Onavo ◴[17 Nov 24 07:43 UTC] No.42162634[source]▶
What I want is more implementations of Hotmail's (outlook online) sweep feature. Zoho has it (called scrub) but most other email clients do not. Essentially it allows you to instantly move/delete mails from a single address en masse without having to jump through 5 different filter modals like Gmail.
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1. Izkata ◴[17 Nov 24 09:20 UTC] No.42163003[source]▶
Use "in:inbox from:foo@bar.com" in gmail's search and no need for any modals. The email address even autocompletes based on emails you've received.
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2. Onavo ◴[17 Nov 24 09:27 UTC] No.42163042[source]▶
Yes but it is not very efficient when you have many emails. In Hotmail/Zoho it is two clicks.
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3. Izkata ◴[17 Nov 24 19:03 UTC] No.42166158[source]▶
Okay, I just went looking for it and found at least the search can be done in gmail in two clicks as well: Right click an email, pick "Find emails from ...." near the bottom of gmail's custom menu. It doesn't have the "in:inbox" part of the search but presumably that's not much an issue since new emails would be at the top and gmail does display tags (including "Inbox") next to the subject line.
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4. Onavo ◴[17 Nov 24 22:18 UTC] No.42167864{3}[source]▶
I tried this before, it doesn't handle group emails correctly. Google groups is one of the official methods recommended by Google to have a shared inbox and this filter automatically selects all emails sent to the group's address rather than by sender.