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How can I distinguish if I have to filter emails via sender or mailinglist (provider)?
I have a similar problem to the person with this question.
The e-mails I receive aren't totally unwanted though, but legitimate newsletters.
They clutter my inbox though. And as the fella above I ...
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My Gmail filter is also sending some emails to the wrong label
In the past few weeks, Gmail has started sending all my LinkedIn groups emails both to my "LinkedIn" folder as well as to my "Mailing Lists" folder. I don't want them in my "Mailing Lists" folder and ...
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gmail: filter to move email to the “sent folder”
Is it possible to create a gmail filter to redirect incoming email (those sent by me to me) to the sent folder?
I use a VBA script to send email from Excel through smtp.googlemail.com. Unfortunately, ...
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Is there a way to search/filter gmail emails by the absolute domain without subdomains (e.g. google.com, but not plus.google.com)
Is there a way to search/filter gmail emails by the absolute domain without subdomains? If just do a search/filter on from:@google.com it includes all subdomains like plus.google.com, ...
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Can Gmail forward mail to only one of two places?
I'd like to forward incoming Gmail to exactly one of two places, depending on the sender, something like this:
If the sender is a.com or z.com, forward only to myid@firstforward.com and delete.
If ...
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Gmail filter not from address conversation
I created a filter that matches all the automated messages sent from a service, marks them as read, archives them (skips the inbox), and adds an "Automated" label.
This works great most of the time, ...
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Creating a list of contacts from generated emails [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Get e-mail addresses from Gmail messages received
I teach a class on using Mathematica, and in the first "lab", the students enter their email address, and these are ...
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Filter new mail based on action performed on previous ones of the same conversation
I keep receiving emails sent to mailing lists which I subscribe, some of them are interested to me while other are not.
So, I want to set up the filter which mark an email as unimportant when I mark ...
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How to get email addresses of selected emails from gmail inbox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I grab all email addresses associated with a “label” in Gmail?
I have thousands of emails in my gmail inbox. I want to get the email address of each selected ...
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Google Mail: advanced filtering of usernames in Search
The school I attend uses Google Apps for mail; using a set system for all student email addresses.
The system is similar to this example:
11A[surname and initial]@domain.org
Is there a way to use ...
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How to Filter Emails Forwarded to Gmail Alias?
I have a Google Apps email (me@business.com) set to auto-forward all mail to my personal Gmail (me@gmail.com). I have added the me@business.com address to my personal Gmail so I can send mail as ...
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How to disable Gmail's spam filter? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable the spam filter in Gmail?
How to disable Gmail's spam filter? I'd prefer to manually filter them as my account has low enough traffic.
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How can I auto-delete some spam from Gmail?
I really like GMail's spam filters. However, they occasionally catch not-spam so I like to quickly scan the contents of spam folder every so often, marking "not spam" to the few messages that aren't ...
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Filtering archived messages in Gmail
I've done a lot of searching and experimenting with this and can't make it work. Basically I, like most, get a lot of email that isn't spam but isn't interesting. I read the first line preview and ...
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How can I filter and label emails that are sent to a mailing list (which I am a part of)?
My current Gmail e-mail address is a part of a bunch of mailing lists that I need to be a part of. The problem is that I don't know what they are and they are always changing. So, how can I have it ...
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How to make Gmail receive email only from one account? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to implement a white-list-based system in Gmail?
I want to make my Gmail account filter out all incoming email, save for those from a particular address, so that ...
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How can I grab all email addresses associated with a “label” in Gmail? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Get e-mail addresses from Gmail messages received
In Gmail, you can tag one or more emails with a Label:
I know I can select the label to see the emails in question, ...
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Can I configure a Gmail filter to work only during certain hours?
The company I work for uses Gmail for our company mail and I have my phone setup with push mail etc. This is great, but there are some kinds of email I really don't want to know about when I'm not at ...
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Gmail custom filter shortcut
These days I'm getting so many spam emails, so I go to "filter message like this" -> From "sender's id" ->next step -> "Also apply filter to n conversations below" -> create filter.
Above ...
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Why does GMail still process incoming emails after I've deleted a filter?
I've a problem with Gmail.
Long time ago, I created a filter for incoming e-mails with a specific address, and gave them a specific label. A few weeks ago, I've deleted the filter and my filter-list ...
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How can I remove spam filtering in Gmail? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable the spam filter in Gmail?
Is there any way disable the spam folder and let all my messages come to my inbox?
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Make Gmail send automatic canned responses for email it gets via POP
I have email from my personal domain POP'ed by my Gmail account. It works beautifully, except that it can't seem to do auto-replies.
That means that I can't have an away message when I'm on vacation. ...
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Gmail: using filters to delete all messages that match [duplicate]
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How can I perform the same action on all results of a label/search in Gmail?
In Gmail, I have a bunch of messages under a label that I want to delete (basically all the ...
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Adding a label to outgoing mail, gmail also moves it to the inbox
I have a filter which adds a label, applied to both from: and to: addresses.
When I compose a new mail (not reply) matched by that filter the label is correctly applied, but the mail also ends up in ...
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How do you test and save filters in Gmail New Look?
It seems that with the change to the Gmail UI, the filter creation function is merely a pop-down menu. If I actually try to test a filter, it'll show me the results... but only once. After showing ...
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Performing calculations using filters within a GMail account
Is it possible to perform calculations using filters within a GMail account?
I've been received receipts for various tickets, and I want to calculate the number of people who paid a certain amount of ...
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Reject an email addressed to too many recipients in Gmail
Is there anyway to reject an email that is addressed to more than 5 recipients and have it bounce back to the sender with gmail? This is a long shot. Essentially I just don’t like receiving these “hey ...
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Why indefinite loop is not working in Gmail forwarding?
I have created 2 new mail-id's,
nullable1@gmail.com
nullable2@gmail.com
And I created a filter in both mail-ids, So as to forward the nullable2's incoming mail to nullable1 and vice versa.
...
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Gmail internal Mail Filters
I have a set of filters that auto add emails sent within a particular domain as 'internal'
e.g. if me@example.com sends an email to boss@example.com, it is tagged internal
The problem is, my filter ...
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Advanced Gmail filter criteria
I have a couple on-going conversation threads in Gmail with a number of different people. Is there a way to setup a filter so that it will add a label if the body of any new, unread email contains my ...
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How to filter messages in Hotmail?
I am forwarding my Hotmail account's email to my Gmail account, and it's working fine.
Does anyone know to add filters like Gmail does?
For example: like when it forward the email to any other ...
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Gmail filter criteria being ignored - always mark as important
My Gmail Priority Mailbox was working pretty good until about a week ago.
I have a filter as per the following:
Matches: from:(sample@network.net) subject:(Sample Subject)
Do this: Apply label ...
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How do I search within an attachment in Gmail?
Gmail allows me to search using the operator as
has:attachment *.txt
How do I further filter this to search for a specific word in a file?
E.g. to search for a PDF that contains the word ...
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Better Mailing List Filter Management for GMail
I once subscribed to so many mailing lists looong time ago, and then I filtered those emails and grouped them into a sort of organisation/based on my interest, but then when I got time I unsubscribed ...
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How can I write a Gmail filter that matches on the number of email addresses in the “To” field?
I'm trying to figure out how I can write a filter for Gmail that will match on the number of email addresses in the "To" field (plan to do the same for the "Cc" field as well, so if it counts both, ...
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Filter messages with (no subject) in Gmail
Is there any workaround or way to filter or search for messages that have no subject line?
I can see there is no way to filter messages when some field is "missing".
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Is there a way to filter messages into a certain folder in Yahoo! Mail?
Is there a way to filter messages into a certain folder in Yahoo! Mail (much similar to what is available in Gmail)?
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Gmail Filtering: How to filter by messages, not by conversation?
I have been emailing my Gmail account error messages from a project I am working on.
I am trying to use GMail filters/labels to sort out the class of errors. But because the subject line is ...
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Gmail filters based on label and starred
Is it possible to create filters based on Labels and starred/un-starred status in Gmail or any other app (Android or GNU/Linux)?
My specific problem is this: I want to delete mails labelled lists ...
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Forward only important mail in gmail
Is there a way to forward (or to get in any other way) the important mail as they arrive (or shortly after that) from the priority inbox to another mail account without forwarding the unimportant ...
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Gmail Mute Filter
Is it possible to use Gmail filters to Mute a conversation?
I've tried using a filter to Skip the Inbox, but when someone else replies to the original email it ends up in the Inbox again.
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Gmail: Filtering subjects with NOT(-)
I want to filter every message that is sent to a mailing list, except those that begin(or just contain) "Re:"
In "Has the words" I've put.
subject:(mailing-list) subject:(-re)
However that will ...
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GMail Filter - Trash or Spam?
If I create a gmail filter that makes emails coming from certain email ID (say abc@gmail.com) skip my inbox and go to trash. Now suppose gmail spam detector finds that this mail looks like spam. Then ...
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Gmail filter for dates?
Is there a filter in Gmail that will sort your emails by date?
For example if you get filters from address "X" on a certain day of the week, can you create a folder for just that mail (with an ...
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Using formula (i.e. number calculation) in Gmail filter
I've been getting coupon offers from half a dozen of sites.
Is it possible to use a formula like "If there is a number that is larger than 60, then remove". This means that all coupons which cost ...
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How do I filter PayPal emails in Gmail?
I have a donation button on my website. Donation emails from PayPal are marked "From:" the person who donated.
How can I create a filter in Gmail to filter these emails into a label? (I'd do it by ...
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How do I write a combined advanced gmail filter?
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 ...
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Any way to document what a specific Gmail filter is for?
I have a lot of Gmail filters set up, and it's hard to remember what each one is for. Is there any way I can add a short comment to each one?
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Filtering tagged and untagged gmail messages
I am currently switching over to using "tagged" gmail addresses - for example, using name+amazon@gmail.com for my amazon email, name+newegg@gmail.com for my newegg account, etc. However, because I am ...
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Is it possible to create a Gmail filter that works on arbitrary headers?
(Not a dup: this very similar question really asks about the DeliveredTo header).
Bugzilla provides a number of headers telling you why you received a mail, such as X-Bugzilla-Reason. How can I ...
