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I would like to create a filter in gmail as:

to:@mycompany.com OR from:@mycompany.com

However when I attempt to create or edit a filter I am given a form with individual fields and cannot find a way to create a combined filter as above.

Has anybody successfully created such a filter lately and how would I do it?

UPDATE: The Build advanced Gmail filters and persistent searches article has the solution. Put the query, as above, into the "Has words" section of the gmail filter! Fantastic!

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Do you men filtering or searching with that criteria? – cYrus Oct 5 '10 at 13:21
'filtering' means 'message arrived - aplly it a label/archive/delete/forward. So what? – mhambra Oct 5 '10 at 13:29
(*typo: mean) I know what a filter is. You can't create a filter but you can search for to:@mycompany.com OR from:@mycompany.com. – cYrus Oct 5 '10 at 13:36

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Currently, you can not create such filters. Create two and use both. If you really need strict display of only @mycompany.com-related messages in your inbox, either use IMAP and some client, or some GMail app (there are few for MacOS), or write a greasemonkey script that hides anything without from/to label.

UPD: http://lifehacker.com/276499/build-advanced-gmail-filters-and-persistent-searches -- really neat, thought that just adding e-mails to a list of known words is not good, but didn't know that!

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Ah, so one cannot definitively mix advanced search classifiers in their filter. Looking at lifehacker.com/276499/… seems to imply this is possible in the "Has words" section... – PP Oct 5 '10 at 13:35
If you want to edit your answer with the solution I've provided I'll accept it as the authoritative solution. – PP Oct 5 '10 at 13:40

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