User's Manual

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Reporting spam
The Gmail webmail service is quite effective at preventing spam (junk mail) from reaching your Inbox. But
when spam does make it through, you can help improve the Gmail service by reporting the conversation as
spam.
Report a conversation as spam
While reading the conversation's messages, press Menu and touch More > Report spam OR check one or a
batch of conversations in your Inbox or other conversation list, press Menu and touch Report spam.
When you report a conversation as spam, the conversation and all its messages are removed from your
Inbox. You can view the messages you’ve marked as spam by viewing messages with the Spam label. See
“Viewing conversations by label”.
Searching for messages
You can search for messages that contain one or more words in their contents or in their addresses,
subjects, labels and so on. When you search for messages, all of the messages in your Gmail account on the
web are included (except those labeled Trash or Spam), not just those that you’ve synchronized onto your
phone. For this reason, you must have a data connection to search for messages in Gmail.
You can also use the advanced search options that are described on the Gmail website.
In the Inbox, press Menu and touch Search, or press the Search button.
Enter the word or words to search for and touch the Go button on the onscreen keyboard or the
magnifying glass icon at the right of the search box OR touch words you searched for previously, in the list
below the search box.
A conversation list opens, displaying all of the conversations with messages that contain the words you
searched for. The words you searched for are displayed in the title bar.
You work with the conversations in this list just as you would with the conversations in your Inbox or any
other conversation list.
When you open a conversation in a search result list, the word you searched for is highlighted wherever it
occurs in the conversation’s messages.
Words you search for are stored by the phone and suggested for later Gmail searches. You can erase these
stored words with Gmail settings; see “Changing Gmail settings”.
Archiving conversations
You can archive conversations, to move them out of your Inbox without deleting them. Archived
conversations are assigned the All Mail label and they retain any other labels you’ve assigned to them. See
“Viewing conversations by label”. They’re also included in search results. If someone replies to a message
that you’ve archived, its conversation is restored to your Inbox.
While viewing a list of conversations, touch & hold a conversation and touch Archive in the menu that
opens
OR check one or more conversations in your Inbox or other conversation list and touch Archive OR touch
Archive at the bottom of the screen when reading a message.