I have recently got involved with a local volunteer project involving around 15 different people. There are lots of things to be discussed between us, and they way this is done is via email. But these people are very keen and seem to use email almost like an instant messenger, which means my Gmail notifications are going wild all day with the multiple conversations and replies they generate. I want to stop these notifications and read the emails when I choose, as none are vitally important or time critical.

Initially I tried creating a filter to send any email from any one of these 15 people directly to an archive folder, but this only seems to work for the first email in a conversation. Once other people start replying, I start getting notifications again. I realised I could mute each new conversation, but they generate new conversations so quickly this would be a lot of work. I just want something to automatically deal with all these emails, stop notifications for them and stop them clogging up my inbox. Surely this is possible? I can’t seem to find an obvious way to do it?