{"id":570,"date":"2022-03-18T10:21:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T10:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/?p=570"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T10:21:34","slug":"truly-muting-gmail-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.vandragt.com\/technology\/truly-muting-gmail-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly Muting Gmail Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might have noticed that after muting a Gmail conversation it pops back into the inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cMuted conversations will only pop back into your inbox ready for your attention if a new message in the conversation is addressed to you and no one else, or if you\u2019re added to the \u2018To\u2019 or \u2018CC\u2019 line in a new message.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you find conversations are popping back into the inbox you can create a new Apps Script (from Google Drive) with the following contents and add a Timed project trigger (most easily available from the classic editor) to run it every 15 minutes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>function archiveMuted() {\n  var threads = GmailApp.search('is:muted',0,100);\n  GmailApp.moveThreadsToArchive(threads);\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adjust the number 100 to the amount of muted email threads you expect in your inbox every 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that after muting a Gmail conversation it pops back into the inbox. Google says: \u201cMuted conversations will only pop back into your inbox ready for your attention if a new message in the conversation is addressed to you and no one else, or if you\u2019re added to the \u2018To\u2019 or \u2018CC\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[49,48],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-automation","tag-gmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}