I will try to walk through the scenario which leads up to my questions.
Steps:
- I get an email in my inbox
- I drag it over to a label. So the email is removed from the inbox and shows up when I click on the label.
- Now, when I am looking at the detailed message and I see the labels listed at the top of the mail. If I click the X on the right of the label in the email to remove it, that works but my question is :
Where does this email go now? I don't see it in the inbox, it is no longer in the view of that label.
Where does an email go in this situation?
Best Answer
All mail in Gmail is in the All Mail label, unless the message is deleted. Even Inbox is just a label. When you add or remove a label, the email is still in All Mail, it just also shows up in the other label if it's labeled.
Note: even All Mail is a label, it just is the only one that can't be removed (except by deleting the message).