Please add an action to eMClient that removes all labels from a (gmail) email with one click or shortcut.
Why? – Emails in a gmail folder are theoretically already “archived” (since they are not in the inbox). Therefor removing an email from a folder (= removing the label) in order to “archive” it, needs another action.
In gmail there is a button for that: “remove all labels”. – This will move the email to the “All Mail” folder, stripped from any or all labels.
Please add a similar action to eMClient in order to work efficiently with gmail folders / labels, and most importantly, allow a shortcut to be assigned to this action!
Gary, did you read my description thoroughly? Because I think you’re mistaken.
Gmail emails in a gmail folder / label are technically already “archived”. There isn’t even an “archive” button in the right click menu. That’s the whole point of my question.
No, if a message has a label for another folder like Sent, it is not archived. Archiving means it has NO labels.
The Archive button is not clickable if you are in the archive - so if you are in All Mail Folder. You need to be in a folder like Inbox or Sent. That is because archiving in Google terms means to remove the labels. So you need to be looking at a message that has a label in order to remove it. That will be messages in “folders”, so Inbox, Sent, and any custom folders you have created yourself.
Hello Gary, I appreciate your help, but I feel this conversation is going nowhere.
We clearly have a very different understanding of archiving behaviour in Gmail and how that reflects inside eM Client.
So let’s leave it at that, shall we?
My reason to post here is:
a) to allow other people with the same request to find mine and upvote it
b) to attract the attention of the dev’s
For clarity, and for the sake of other users, my request is the following:
add an action that “removes all labels” from emails (which is NOT the same as archiving)
Just try it. If you want to remove all the labels from a message in a Gmail Inbox, click on Archive. Then look in All Mail. You will find it there without any labels.
I found using my Gmail account and eM Client V9.2.2157 on Win 11 Pro (23H2) & testing multiple times clicking the Archive button on Inbox messages with labels and tags already setup, if i click an email in the Inbox which already has Gmail labels and Local Tags setup, when i click Archive and then go to All Mail, “only the Inbox label is removed” as per the below screenshot example below. All other labels and tags stay intact. This same thing also happens on the latest eM Client for Mac as well with a Gmail account.
(Gmail Inbox Message) - Inbox and Tags already setup.
Yes, but like I have already tried to explain already multiple times, I am NOT talking about emails in the Inbox!
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I am talking about emails that [in gmail terms] are “archived” but still have labels, or [in eM Client terms] reside in a folder.
Ok i don’t know anyway to automatically remove “in one go” all the labels from the Gmail All Mail (Archive) folder. I normally have to manually remove those if i no longer want them connected to a message.
You may need to do that online in your Gmail account. Maybe suggest to ask the Gmail Community forum.
The feature already exists in Gmail. But I want to have it in eM.
I use eM because it has more features than Gmail, in terms of sorting & grouping messages. So switching back to gmail is not an option, as it’s the whole reason why I downloaded an external client.
The feature already exists in Gmail. But I want to have it in eM
What do you do in Gmail online to remove all labels in one go from All Mail ? Is there a eg: Remove all labels button or some other procedure to do that.
use case:
people use folders (in gmail: “labels”) to organise emails by topic or project.
Once you have read the email, you might want to remove it from your topic.
In gmail this means: “remove the label from the email”. You can’t achieve this by archiving, since technically, the email is already archived (since it is not in your inbox).
Gmail offers a button to remove labels from an email with one click.
I would like to have the same button in eM Client.
disclaimer: I never said my question was about email in the All Mail folder!
Gmail emails with labels in the All Mail folder indeed behave differently…
Basically because Gmail is a mess and Google didn’t get its concepts straightened out.
disclaimer: I never said my question was about email in the All Mail folder*
Quote: - “I am talking about emails that [in gmail terms] are “archived” but still have labels, or [in eM Client terms] reside in a folder”
As you mentioned in one of your posts above that you are talking about archived emails in Gmail (and not the Inbox emails), then that means “the All Mail folder” being that is the Archive folder for all archived mail in Gmail. So why i am talking about All Mail.
I found this as I was looking for this exact feature that I miss from Gmail. When you click “Archive” or CTRL Q in EmClient in the label “Inbox” you remove that label.
In Gmail that button, when in a Label filter, like the screenshot, also does the task of removing that label from the message.
In EmClient the Archive button is greyed out and the CTRL Q shortcut doesn’t do anything, as it’s only function would appear to be to remove the “inbox” label.
The Feature Request is that if you are in a filtered view/ in a label view - that the Archive function is available, and the action is to remove the label that you are in.
For me that means this.
I have a selection of emails that using filters/ rules in Gmail (and GScripts that I custom wrote, that is another story) add a label for a project AND the pictured @ASAP label.
In a way it is like the “Promotions” folder filter - but I get to manually teach Gmail who I want to be in my @ASAP view.
When I have read the @ASAP email, I can either move it to another label, like @AwaitingUrgentReply* OR I just remove the label @ASAP as I have now dealt with that email.
So having a shortcut for removing the label would be a game changer for me
PS I know EmClient has a function like this, I haven’t used it yet.
Hi @CraigLambie42, thanks for reviving this subject!
I gave up trying to explain to people (who were obviously not getting it) that this feature as of now is NOT supported by eM Client.
Yep, it is quite frustrating reading it…haha - he just didn’t seem to get it.
Maybe wasn’t a big Gmail user.
I hope this has made it clearer and @Gary could now take a look.
This and one more feature would make my day! I am about to post that other feature - which is Thunderbird style search.
