I will be away from my email for about six months. I don't want any of the emails in that time to be in my Inbox when I return.
Is there a way to set up a filter that will send all incoming emails to a separate folder for a date-limited time?
Gmail – Send all incoming email to a folder while “Out of Office”
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Click on the gear icon at the top right of your inbox. It looks like this:
Select Settings.
- In the General tab, scroll down to "Vacation responder"
- Select Vacation responder on
- Fill out the dates you would like the response to be on and the subject and body for the message you would like to be sent as a reply.
- Check the Only send a response to people in my Contacts if you don't want to send out the auto-responder to people not already in your address book.
- Click Save Changes
All sent items from within Google Apps are signed like this:
example@example.com (Google Drive)
If you search for those items in the search field like this:
you can either:
- Select them manually, to do what ever you want;
- Prior to searching, you can create a filter.
Best Answer
No, you cannot setup a filter based on a time period.
You could setup a filter to send all of your mail to the Archive (and also label them if you want) but you would need to turn that filter off once you no longer want it active.
If you are interested in learning some scripting, you could solve this problem using Apps Script. Basically, you would write a script and store it in your Google Drive - maybe the script would scan your Inbox for new mail every hour and send it to the Archive - and schedule it to run every day, every hour, whatever, and put some sort of check into the script code to cause it to stop running after a certain date. You would need some scripting skills to do this (JavaScript), but the programming environment provided by Apps Script does make it very easy to do things like this.