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      type="topic" id="mail-labels">

  <info>
    <desc>Use labels to categorize your mail while keeping it in their folders.</desc>

    <link type="guide" xref="mail-organizing#advanced"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="using-categories"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.0.2" version="0.3" date="2011-07-30" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    
    
  </info>

  <title>Using Labels</title>

<p>You can add colored labels to emails in order to categorize them. This is similar to <link xref="using-categories">Categories</link> in the other Evolution windows.</p>

<p>You can search for messages with specific labels by using the <link xref="mail-searching">quick search dropdown</link>. Also, <link xref="mail-search-folders">search folders</link> can be created based on labels.</p>

<section id="add">
<title>Adding a label to a message</title>
<p>To assign a label to a message, right-click the message, click <gui>Label</gui>, and choose the label to apply.</p>
<p>You can also quickly add a new label by choosing <gui>New Label</gui>.</p>
</section>

<section id="manage">
<title>Managing labels</title>
<p>You can add, edit and delete all labels under <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Mail Preferences</gui><gui>Labels</gui></guiseq>. Note that you cannot remove the default labels.</p>
</section>

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