Applying labels to emails

Last published : Apr 17, 2026
To help organize your work you can apply labels to the emails. Labels are applied to emails typically to mark them as exempt from the review process.
To apply a label to emails
  1. On the Investigations tab, create a new search or select the searches from the On-going searches or Standard searches node.
  2. Perform advanced search or query search to get the expected items. See Performing Advanced Search and Query Search.
The application displays result.
  1. On the Emails tab, select the check box for one or more emails to which you want to apply labels.
  2. On the action menu, click Label.
  3. In the Add/Remove Labels dialog box, select the labels you want to apply to the emails.
You can clear the labels if these are not required anymore. In case you have selected multiple emails, the Add/Remove Labels dialog box shows applied level status as follows:
  • The check box that is not selected yet means this label is not at all applied to the selected emails.
  • The check box with the dash mark means the label is applied to some of the selected emails, but not applied to all the selected emails.
  • The check box with the tick mark means the label is applied to all the selected emails.
  1. Select the required labels, and click Apply Changes.
After you apply labels to the emails, these labeled emails are available under the respective labels under the Labels node.
  1. To ensure if the label is applied to the email, select the email to view its details in the right pane, and expand Labels.
You can click any label in the Labelspopup to navigate to the respective label under theLabels node. See the sample image below
Related information