Anyone know how to filter out conversations in gmail?

[astroman707]

I get a ridiculous amount of gmail every day from my college's student body, but 95% is just students flooding the emails with nonsense ' forum bump' type responses and it's a chore to try and check my emails.
--Does anyone have any idea how to filter out or mute responses to future emails?--
I'd like to get the original emails, but then never be notified again.

 

[russ_watters]

I get a ridiculous amount of gmail every day from my college's student body, but 95% is just students flooding the emails with nonsense ' forum bump' type responses and it's a chore to try and check my emails.
--Does anyone have any idea how to filter out or mute responses to future emails?--
I'd like to get the original emails, but then never be notified again.

Probably a setting in whatever forum that is to not send you notices for every little thing.

 

[CWatters]

Im not a Gmail user but gogling found this which suggests you can automatically label and move/filter messages from a specific sender...

https://zapier.com/blog/gmail-filters/

I suppose their might be a way to label and filter messages that begin "re:"

 

[astroman707]

Probably a setting in whatever forum that is to not send you notices for every little thing.

I wish, but it's actually not a forum. They're all college wide emails sent out by the student body. Unfortunately, the only filters I see on gmail are to manually mute a current email conversation.

 

[Borg]

Have you tried the Settings gear on the right? Select the Settings option in the dropdown and then the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab. From there, you should be able to create a filter to block the offending emails.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

If no important mails are sent from that particular mail address, you can block it. Just click on "Report spam", and further mails will just go to your spam box instead of flooding your inbox.

I have done the same with four or five mail addresses where unsubscribing didn't work (my emails were from an institution that I left after one month of joining). Reminds me of James Veitch's TedTalk The Agony of Trying to Unsubscribe.

 

[astroman707]

Have you tried the Settings gear on the right? Select the Settings option in the dropdown and then the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab. From there, you should be able to create a filter to block the offending emails.

That’s the dillema I have. The emails are important, and I need to read them, but every time someone responds to an email, I get the entire email resent to my inbox. I’d like to only get a notification for the very first email, and mute all responses to any emails.