Side note... If you click into google labs in gmail settings, you can enable "nested labels" which would change tech/ALE and tech/Linux to:<div>Tech</div><div> ALE</div><div> Linux</div><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div>Harold</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Jerald Sheets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com">questy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You know, Mac mail acts nearly the same, except that left to its own devices will eventually reset the unread count on the All Mail folder.<br>
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If you leave it along long enough, does it eventually reset the Unread count?<br>
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On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:<br>
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> I have filters on the gmail server to apply the label "Tech/ALE" to all<br>
> inbound mail from <a href="http://ale.org" target="_blank">ale.org</a> as well as bypassing the "Inbox". The desired<br>
> behavior is that when I look at my folder list in T'Bird subfolder ALE<br>
> is highlighted with the number of new unread messages in parenthesis.<br>
> What actually happens is the correct labels do get applied, but when I<br>
> look at my "Folder List" only [Gmail]All Mail indicates unread messages<br>
> so when I click on the next button it goes to that folder and I have to<br>
> go through all new mail. The filtered folders do not give the unread<br>
> indication but if I go to it the message(s) are/is there. So in reality<br>
> since I do download the messages I have 2 copies of each message. One<br>
> copy in the All Mail folder, and one in the after label applied folder.<br>
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