How can I view all of my inbox emails even though they are in different sub-folders?
I get a lot of emails from a lot of different people within the same company instructing me on amends and things on design work. I have created several sub-folders within my inbox and applied rules so emails go into each one depending upon the email. This works fine and all the emails are sitting within the respective folders.
However, I would still like to see an 'overall' list of emails which shows everything that's come in. It seems to have moved the emails into their individual folders but it's really useful for me to see everything lined up in one view.
Can this be done?
Chosen solution
Unified view will not help as it only unifies all the main folders such as Inbox, Sent, Junk etc.
the whole point of sub folders is to separate the emails, so even in Unified view all folders you created will be displayed as separate.
One method when filtering you could place a copy in a new folder called eg: 'Combi Work', which you could use as a combined view and a second condition to move email from Inbox to separate folder for storage(which is what you may be doing at the moment).
Another idea which actually may be more suitable. Set each email in the subfolders with a specifc tag only used for emails that you put in those subfolders. this could be done manually or added to the Message filter in the first place, so it is added automatically. Edit > Find > Search Messages or Menu Icon > Find > Search Messages search messages in Inbox on account select : 'Search subfolders' select: 'match all of the following' Select: 'Tags' and 'Contains' and 'name of special combi tag' click on 'Search'
It should then check all Inbox subfolders for special combi tag. If all of those emails have that tag applied then the search should return all of those emails. You could then click on 'Save as Search Folder' button, so you can create a special folder with all of those emails. Obviously, the new search folder will become outdated, but very easy to delete and recreate as required.
Read this answer in context 👍 1All Replies (2)
Chosen Solution
Unified view will not help as it only unifies all the main folders such as Inbox, Sent, Junk etc.
the whole point of sub folders is to separate the emails, so even in Unified view all folders you created will be displayed as separate.
One method when filtering you could place a copy in a new folder called eg: 'Combi Work', which you could use as a combined view and a second condition to move email from Inbox to separate folder for storage(which is what you may be doing at the moment).
Another idea which actually may be more suitable. Set each email in the subfolders with a specifc tag only used for emails that you put in those subfolders. this could be done manually or added to the Message filter in the first place, so it is added automatically. Edit > Find > Search Messages or Menu Icon > Find > Search Messages search messages in Inbox on account select : 'Search subfolders' select: 'match all of the following' Select: 'Tags' and 'Contains' and 'name of special combi tag' click on 'Search'
It should then check all Inbox subfolders for special combi tag. If all of those emails have that tag applied then the search should return all of those emails. You could then click on 'Save as Search Folder' button, so you can create a special folder with all of those emails. Obviously, the new search folder will become outdated, but very easy to delete and recreate as required.
Ah, that's a thought. I'll just make a copy of every email that comes in from the various accounts and set up another folder called 'work inbox' and that should do it.
Good idea mate. Thanks.