{"id":427,"date":"2009-10-04T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T00:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internettipoftheweek.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2009-10-04T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T00:56:17","slug":"how-to-automatically-archive-old-messages-from-your-gmail-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/tech\/427\/how-to-automatically-archive-old-messages-from-your-gmail-inbox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Automatically Archive Old Messages from Your Gmail Inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Email experts <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvardbusiness.org\/silverman\/2009\/05\/how-to-keep-your-email-under-c.html\">advise against using your email inbox as storage<\/a> and instead suggest frequently cleaning it out and storing old messages in archive folders instead.  For Gmail users, here&#8217;s a filter that will move all messages older than a certain date to your archive. 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