Gmail Labs: How to setup Multiple-inboxes in Gmail [Feature Alert]

Posted by Abbas ||

February 6, 2009 ||

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Gmail recently announced the Multiple Inboxes feature in Gmail Labs. Don’t go by the name, it wont allow you to setup multiple accounts in one but what it does is, it lets you create and setup a “Custom search” in “Multiple Inboxes”.

Once setup it will split the screen and start showing e-mails from the custom search.

Here is how you can set it up:

Login to Gmail and Go to Settings
Go to Labs and “Enable” Multiple Inboxes

Now return to your “inbox” and see the screen split into 3 with default custom search showing e-mails from Drafts, Inbox, etc in different panes.

Now customize the view further and add your own custom searches go to “Settings” and “Multiple Inboxes”, remove the default custom searches (if you like) and add your own, select the number of conversations you want to see and where you want to see it, Right side of the inbox, Above the inbox or Below the inbox and “Save Changes”.

That’s it.. you are all set..

I use Google Desktop, it’s always sitting on my desktop as a sidebar and this kind of messes up the formatting in the “Multiple Inbox” view, Gmail team probably needs to fix it.

This is what Multiple Inboxes looks like in Gmail Settings