I really like the new priority inbox feature in gmail/google apps, but am I the only one so far that is having wrong counts? Or maybe I’m just not following how it is supposed to count them.
Take a look:
The label shows 5 unread messages, but the “Important and unread” area says it has 8. I counted them and there are 8 for sure. While I am writing this it changed so the label says 10 and “Important and unread” shows 13 with 13 real messages.
So what’s up with the label number being off?
Google labs have released “Mail Googles” in order to make you think about the email you’re going to send before sending it, but only when you’re sending this within the hours you pre-select.
You can read more about this completely asinine labs project on the Gmail blog should you have a desire to.
For quite some time I couldn’t figure out how to search through the spam folder in gmail (and google apps mail) unless your search found no results in the other folders. Well, it’s actually really simple now that I figured it out. Sure, I could have read the instructions but that takes the fun out of it, and it wasn’t all that important anyway.
Here’s how to search through your spam folder in gmail – it also works in google apps mail.
In the search box, type your search like you normally would, just ad “in:spam” to the end of it. So if you were to search for “password” and wanted to search just the spam folder for a password recovery email or something similar, type “password in:spam” without the quotes, of course. You can also reverse it, if you wanted to because that’s the logic that works with your brain, so try “in:spam password” and it does the same thing.