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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed
well of course u can be notified of a new message...
yes ur pop up will give u the name and subject line
what do u mean by labels??/
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'Labels' are a Gmail-specific feature. Think of them as the old style 'folders' on your average email system, except that messages in Gmail can have multiple labels, so they can be sorted under multiple headings while still only having one copy of the email in your account. This makes it easier to manage large volumes of mail and still be able to find relevant emails 4 years down the line if you need to.
For example, if I have a message from PPCGeeks come in saying that a thread that I am subscribed to has a reply, Gmail labels it as 'PPCGeeks' and keeps it out of my main inbox. The only mail that actually hits my inbox is mail that Gmail doesn't know how to filter/label, which is usually personal email.
I'd like to know when I get a new message in the account, what the subject line is, and what label is has assigned, if possible. If I could block updates for some specific labels (a couple are high-volume mailing lists) that would be nice too.