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What does the icon with the Box with a Down Arrow do?

When I open certain messages, at the bottom toolbar instead of a trash can icon I get an icon that looks like a moving box with a arrow pointing down. When I have accidentally pressed it the message disappears. I cant find it in any folder or location? Any ideas what happens to the emails?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Dual 2.66 Dual Core, 5 GB of RAM, 2 Nvidia 7300GT

Posted on Sep 21, 2010 1:11 PM

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Posted on Sep 21, 2010 7:10 PM

I noticed this new icon appeared after the latest iPhone IOS4 update. From my experience, clicking on that icon throws the email into the "filters" I've created in Gmail on my desktop computer. I'm not sure how it would respond if I didn't have a filter for a particular email. I think another forum user mentioned it gets dumped in the "all mail" folder. Not sure how that would be helpful. If someone from Apple could give us the textbook definition of this new icon and it's use, I'd appreciate it.
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advantageellis
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Sep 21, 2010 7:10 PM in response to wrc2tuning

I noticed this new icon appeared after the latest iPhone IOS4 update. From my experience, clicking on that icon throws the email into the "filters" I've created in Gmail on my desktop computer. I'm not sure how it would respond if I didn't have a filter for a particular email. I think another forum user mentioned it gets dumped in the "all mail" folder. Not sure how that would be helpful. If someone from Apple could give us the textbook definition of this new icon and it's use, I'd appreciate it.
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Dec 13, 2010 5:26 PM in response to wrc2tuning

This is just NUTS. I've looked everywhere to find out what that stupid box is for! I sent a bunch of photo attachments there assuming that they were being saved to my photo album but alas no. I too noticed this mystery box after upgrading. Why on earth would apple not offer some explanation for this ANYWHERE???? If there is an explanation somewhere that I missed it is somewhere far too obscure to be of use to the average iPad user! GRRRRRR!!
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Jan 12, 2011 7:40 PM in response to Debbienotdeborah

The icon is for archiving. The same icon is used by Apple in me.com for Mail management. It works best when you go to Settings on your iPad and through Mail, Calendar, etc, click on an account. One of the options will be to enable Archiving. If you click "On" you will get an actual pop up question "Archive?" and if you turn it off, the typical Trashcan will be present.

You should be able to find any missing eMails in the All Mail folder.
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