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There is a caveat to this. I find it makes checking mail on the move a PITA, namely - having to check more than the inbox for potentially important mail. I got

There is a caveat to this. I find it makes checking mail on the move a PITA, namely - having to check more than the inbox for potentially important mail. I got around this by using the filters in the same way you describe, but have gmail keep them in the inbox. That way, once I've read them I can delete them from my phone (which is really just archive) and they remain in the appropriate label/folder when I want to find them again.

Natsu 16y ago
Well, they don't get marked as read, so it's not really a problem for me, because I mark everything as read when I'm done with it. And "done" doesn't necessarily mean I read it, especially in the case of high volume mailing lists. So all I have to do is expand the labels once to make sure there's nothing hiding in the labels I don't check very often. I really haven't had many problems with that and I prefer to keep all the email archived. But I guess I don't (can't) check it on my phone, so maybe that makes more of a difference than I realize.