Knowledge base
Merged inboxes
Read every address in one stream, or narrow to the two or three you actually work out of.
Details
- The sidebar switcher ticks addresses rather than picking one: any combination of them, grouped under the domain they belong to. An empty filter means all of them, so unticking one address from the merged view leaves you with everything except that one. The last ticked address cannot be unticked, because nothing selected is already how “everything” is stored.
- The selection is saved for each workspace as a set of rules. A whole domain is one rule, and it also covers addresses added to that domain later. A single address is another. The selection is kept on this device first and synced to your account, so it survives a reload and follows you to your other devices. An older link that carries ?address= is honoured once: its addresses become the saved selection and the parameter is removed from the URL. A rule that no longer resolves (an address deleted, a share revoked, a domain removed) is dropped before the request reaches the server, because a mailbox shared with you refuses the whole request over a single address you were not granted. Drop them all and the view falls back to every address rather than to an empty inbox.
- A catch-all domain gets one *@domain row, last in its group, standing for the addresses nobody created (the ones delivery recorded because mail arrived for them), so they do not bury the handful you made yourself. Tick it to see only those; on a domain that has caught nothing yet it answers with an empty list rather than refusing to be pressed. Creating one of them as a named address moves it out of the bucket and onto a row of its own.
- The workspace switcher at the top of the sidebar holds every workspace you can open side by side with the one that is open now: the ones you own and the ones you were invited into.