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Archive or mute Gmail messages

If you want to clean up your inbox without deleting your emails, you can archive or mute them. Your emails are moved to a label called "All Mail."

• When you archive a message: The message will come back to your inbox when someone replies to it.
• When you mute a message: Any replies stay out of your inbox. You can search for the conversation if you want to find it again.

Archive an email

1. Open Gmail.
2. Open the message or check the box to the left of it. To archive multiple emails, check the box next to all emails you want to archive.
3. Near the top of the page, click Archive .

Tip: If keyboard shortcuts are turned on, you can also press e to archive an email you're looking at.

Find or move messages you archived

Messages you archived aren't deleted, and you can still find them any time.