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In Gmail, labels attach to individual messages, not whole threads. This means that new arriving messages in a thread will not always be given existing labels unless they are manually reapplied.

To work around this issue, this project uses a Google Apps Script to periodically add missing labels to all messages affected.

Installation

  1. Enable the Google Apps Script API at https://script.google.com/home/usersettings
  2. Create a new project at https://script.google.com/home
  3. Clone or download this repository 
    git clone [email protected]:ariasemis/propagate-gmail-label.git
  4. Edit .clasp.json file with the scriptId of the project you created
  5. Push changes to google apps script project 
    npm install 
npx clasp login # access your Google account
npm run push
  6. Open project on script.google.com and run install function

To stop the script from running you can execute the uninstall function provided in the script.

Settings

The following options can be configured in Project Settings>Script Properties:

Property Default Value Description
DAYS_BETWEEN_RUNS 1 Frequency in days at which the script will run
TIME_OF_DAY_TO_RUN 5 Specifies the hour at which the script runs
DRY_RUN false When true, the script will only log results without applying changes to message labels
MAX_THREADS_PER_RUN 20 Maximum number of message threads to process per run
NO_LABEL uncategorized Name of the label to add to threads without any label

Acknowledgements

Inspired by Tom Scott's post on fixing Gmail labels.