The label on that list “All Mail” (you may have to scroll down that list and click the More menu item to see it) will not only show you all the mail in Gmail (yours and every incoming and saved email), but also shows you the labels assigned to each email.Įach email in Gmail can have one or multiple labels, so you can see the same email in multiple views if it has multiple labels.

There’s a label for each of the items in the location list on the left-side of your webmail interface, and all Gmail does is sort your email by those labels, creating a “view” of emails with that label. There’s a label for Inbox, and all emails with that label show up in your inbox. they are “labels” that are attached to each email. Lastly, I should remind you that while the locations listed in Gmail look like folders, they really aren’t. Most likely multiple items are checked, and this is most likely why you aren’t seeing expected emails in your (primary) inbox. Click the “Inbox” tab and you’ll see the set of choices at the top titled “ Categories“.

Click that and you’ll see an expanded settings menu with tabs across the top. At the top of the Settings menu is a link “ See All Settings“. It offers various options for Density (how tight things look), Theme (fancy graphics), and Inbox Type.

The webmail interface has a gear icon at the top-right of the window that you click on to open the settings menu. When they made this change, they applied it to your Gmail account, may have told you about it in an email which you might have missed seeing also. Google changes the way Gmail works on a fairly regular basis, and awhile back they came up with the idea of segregating your inbox into multiple places. I think the answer to your quandary is in the way that Gmail has configured their webmail interface at. Several people have told me they emailed me but I haven’t received the emails in my inbox, and don’t see it in the Spam folder either. Emails I expected (including your newsletter) aren’t appearing in my inbox. I been using Gmail for years, and have lately been having trouble.

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