shortcut for archiving in mail

Agreed. This is kinda killing my effciency in using Mail. A shorcut for Archive is in desperate need. Is there a way to create one?

Does this current Archive menu option function as the Archive button for Gmail does? I'm using IMAP gmail.

Hi,

I have successfully added a shortcut for the Archive menu using the System Settings->[...] and it works.

Archived messages go to a folder called Archiver.

Make sure you have correctly filled the fields in the system settings prefpane/keyboard/keyboard shortcuts/Applications Shortcuts.

Mine looks like this:

Note that my menu items are in French so I had to type the menu item accordingly, i.e. "Archiver" instead of "Archive"

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Quentin

Wouldn't a archive button be easier? It is an option in the customize toolbar function.

Isn't that what the "Archive" button in mail does anyway?

Still quite annoying, especially since the folder system does not perfectly overlap with the gmail tags (I can't have the same email in different folders in mail.app, can I?)

Hi,

The name collision might not be the (only) reason,

both my menu item and archive folders are named "Archiver".

But it is still possible that Mail.app displays a short name for my archive folder, i.e. "Archiver", and internally refers to it as something like "gmail/Archiver".

There is a lot of guessing involved, I'd love to see someone that is knowledgeable jumping in the conversation.

EDIT:

Why keyboard shortcuts matter?

keyboard shortcuts improve your productivity alot and save you time!

How much time does it take to reach your mouse, click on the subject then click on the archive button. Probability not long: 1.5s,2s... But repeat it about 50 times in a day.

Multiply by the number of work days in a week and then in a year. Finally multiply it by the number of years you still need to do until retirement.

Now, consider you save 0.7s per shortcut use and say thanks to the one that will find how to enable that shortcut.

Cheers,

Quentin

If you are talking about Gmail labels and such, I agree. It might be possible with Smart mailboxes but at this point it would be best to go with a manual shortcut. Perhaps Automator can help with that?

The problem is, using the archive command for gmail seems to create a new Imap/Archive folder, instead of simply moving them to the "All Mail" built-in gmail archive. Does anyone know of any way to fix this?

I think I just figured out that the plain old delete key actually functions as an 'archive' button in Lion Mail. I've been testing it for a while and can't seem to see anything wrong with this method. It functions exactly like Gmail's archive button, as opposed to Lion Mail's method (which is to put it in a folder named "Archive").

I'd love to see if anyone else can confirm it works for them too. I still have a fear I'm deleting everything somehow, but I've checked in Gmail multiple times, and all seems well. Empty inbox, and the messages are in 'all mail'.

One other handy trick is if you hold down 'command' while you hit 'delete', it truly deletes the message. This makes going through a ton of emails much faster than using a mouse.

Everyone please chime in with your experience and let me know if it works for you as well. I haven't been able to find anyone else having a discussion about this on the web. Thanks!

Pressing delete sends the message to the trash folder in mail, and puts a deleted tag in gmail unless you uncheck "move to trash" in your mailbox behaviour tab (under mail accounts). When you uncheck it, it does look like it mimics the gmail "archive" feature (and not that of mail) like you said.

I was able to do that (before I started investigating the 'delete' key only method) by following this: http://www.jumpingjackrabbit.com/blog-entry/mac-user-tip-creating-custom-keyboar d-shortcuts and it works fine and puts it in the "archive" folder.

Thank you hvantilborg!

That's totally true and I didn't realize it. I do have it unchecked (and I like it!) but I didn't realize exactly why it was working that way.

As a side note, you bringing that to light may have saved my ***, because I have five other accounts that I use much less often, whose check boxes where all configured differently. Now I can look into it and prevent disaster... Thank you! (wish I could hit the 'helpful answer' button for you, but apparantly only the moderator can do that) 😉

See screenshots on how to create a working shortcut, in English, for Archive in Mail.