I just noticed that one of the actions I can take on a discussion thread in Google’s Gmail service is to “mute” it. What the heck is that? Something to do with audio playback, perhaps?
Actually, the ability to mute a conversation in Gmail is quite new and it’s a pretty interesting idea: a muted discussion goes directly into your archive without ever ending up in your inbox along the way.
This is particularly helpful if you see a long discussion happening on a topic that you know you’ll want to reference at some point in the future, but isn’t important to you right now. A quick search with Gmail’s powerful search tools, and you’ll have the entire discussion thread neatly archived, without it cluttering up your inbox!
To see how this works, let’s have a look at a message I just got from Nintendo Corporate PR:
You can see that it’s one of the options on the “More Actions” menu. Select it and you’ll quickly get confirmation of what transpired:
Finally, if you then find it in a search, you’ll note that it’s labelled as being a “muted” discussion thread:
Interestingly, there’s no “unmute” action once it’s in your archives. As far as I can tell, the only way to unmute the conversation is to move it back into your inbox. Probably that’s a symmetric feature that will just show up in the near future, so by the time you read this blog entry, it might already just be in the More Actions menu.
Meanwhile, being able to mute a discussion is a cool idea and a worthy addition to the Gmail capability set.
To unmute, type is:muted in the email box, and you’ll will get all the threads.
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can someone you sent a message read that very message if you decide to ‘mute’ i t within that very day?
Actually, this may also be an awesome tool, if you have any annoy relatives or friends who email you often and if you really don’t wanna chat or just not sure what to say yet… Omg, this would definately take that prob away. But just don’t forget about them… Only a temporary solution tho, cause it may not look good to run into them in person and them to ask why you been ignoring them. Tho you could say you haven’t been on email for a while, they most likely figure that to be a lie if it’s been a month or more… Haha :o) thanks gmail for helping me cut back on unneeded, outside my world, stress… Helps good help, getter sleep and less headaches. Haha :o)
Oh I JUST LOVE THE MUTE BUTTON!! THIS ANNOYING PERSON KEPT SENDING ME EMAILS, I SAW THE BUTTON AN DECIDED TO USE IT NOT KNOWING WHAT THE FEATURE WAS, I DECIDED TO USE IT…AND WHAT DO U KNO…VALAH
NOOOOOOOOOO MORE EMAILS FROM THE WEIRD PERSON!!!!!
Omgeeeee THIS IS AWSOME…I SWARE I TRIED TO FIND AWAY TO BLOCK THEM FROM SENDING ME ANOTHER MESSAGE!!!!!IT WORKED……LETS SEE IF THEY WILL STAY MUTED…GREAT FEATURE!!!
to “unmute” open the email, look near the top it will say “muted” with a little “x” next to it. click the little x. et voila. unmuted.
And also, there is no “Undo” when you use Gmail for Iphone, the mails just dissapeared!, that’s how I’ve arrived here… to know where they were…
i wAnt my muted email back. . Pplz explain us how to get back.
How do you recall an email in Gmail?