How to Mute Gmail Conversations
To mute a conversation, open the message you want to ignore, and then choose Mute under the More (…) menu.
How to Unmute Gmail Conversations
Muted messages are sent to All Mail. To unmute them, you must find them first by:
Looking in All Mail.Searching for the message using criteria such as the sender’s email address, text within the message, the subject, etc.Entering is:muted in the search bar.
Then, to unmute a conversation: To unmute multiple emails at once, select all of them from the list of muted emails, and then select More > Unmute. To place a recently unmuted email into the Inbox or some other folder, manually drag and drop it, or use the Move to option (look for the folder icon).
Archive vs. Mute
An archived message goes to the All Mail folder to help keep your Inbox clean, but any replies sent back to you through that conversation will return to the Inbox. A muted message goes to the All Mail folder, too, but replies remain ignored and will not show up in the Inbox. You must manually find and keep watch over muted emails if you want to stay up to date on replies. This is why the Mute feature is so helpful: It enables you to ignore messages without deleting the emails or blocking the senders.
