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Your comment is confusing because you start this one saying your inbox is full of spam, but respond to a suggestion to mark it as spam by saying it's not actually spam.

If something is not spam but you want it out of your inbox there's a few options:

- click Unsubscribe next to the sender. This should be possible for essentially all promotional email.

- click Actions -> click Block <sender>. Messages from this address will now immediately go to trash.

- click Actions -> click Add rule from message (-> optionally change the suggested conditions) -> check Archive (or if you don't use labels click Move to) -> click Save. Messages matching the conditions will now skip your inbox.

There's not much they could do to make that easier without magically knowing what you care about and what you don't.

I guess what's confusing is that I'm calling the promotional emails also "spam".

But thanks for your suggestions.

I see a few problems. When I receive a promotional email, I want to add a rule, and I have to click 7 times (including once for "Archive"), and use the scroll-wheel to select the "Promotions" label. Secondly, the rule is not applied directly. This is confusing, and cumbersome. Note: I don't want to Unsubscribe (because there may be vouchers), and I don't want to mark it as spam, for the same reason.

Another problem is that the amount of rules gets unwieldy this way. I have hundreds of rules already for promotional stuff and the rules I use for other (more important) stuff are hidden between them.

Maybe you think I am complaining too much, but in gmail it was all simple and automatic.

One rule that may be good, depending on how much of the mailing list email you receive is promotional, is to match "A header called List-Unsubscribe exists" and move that to Promotional. Then you could put any exceptions that it categorizes wrong above it.

That's a good idea. Although, oddly, some of the emails that have an Unsubscribe button have no List-Unsubscribe header.

How would you suggest to solve the following problem: let's say I have archived all my mail (inbox zero); how do I now see the emails that are important to me (i.e., everything that was not labeled e.g. with promotions)?

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