I thought an appropriate label for these types of messages would be Voicemail.

When I tried this, it returned the following error message:

System specific names are not allowed. Please try another name.

I don’t understand why Voicemail would be a system specific name, unless Google has something special coming to Gmail.

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However, recently I found that I’ve accumulated 2500 messages in my inbox. I’m not sure it is necessarily a bad thing, but it is something I’m trying to fix.

I use Gmail, which has a great archive feature. I can archive the email message, getting it out of my inbox, but without deleting it. The messages are still available through search, or through any labels which have been applied to the message.

I think sorting out the inbox will take me a while–to go through 2500 messages, but I’m making progress. Maybe sometime by Christmas I’ll actually see the bottom of it.

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