Gmail – How to Mute a Conversation

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Use case:

I receive some conversation that after a while are not relevant for me anymore.

I would like to somehow mute them so that they don't arrive as new and unread emails in my inbox anymore.

Is this achievable?

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In New Gmail (introduced in July 2018), it's different:

This is the confusing part. There are two 3 dots menu items. In New Gmail, only the top one has the Mute option!
If you enable Gmail shortcuts, you can click "m" to mute a conversation.

When you mute a message: Any replies stay out of your inbox. You can search for the conversation if you want to find it again.

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You can make the mute button come back when filtering by including the is:unread filter and adding -is:muted. I have the following query displayed beneath my inbox using the Multiple Inboxes lab, and it allows me to mute conversations:

label:Support is:unread -is:muted

This shows me anything labelled Support that I haven't read, and that isn't muted yet. The mute button can be found under the More Actions button as usual.

How Does ‘Muting’ Work in Gmail?

You are correct. Muting a conversation archives it and any new emails that fall under the conversation (same subject) will skip the inbox and be archived.

I'm guessing you might be stuck on this next part though, as it seems to lessen the value of the feature itself.

Muting a conversation does not normally work if your email is in the To or Cc field. However, there is now a feature in Gmail Labs called Smart Mute that will keep a thread archived as long as your email address was not added to the To or Cc after you clicked Mute.

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