Methods to include or exclude certain emails or messages from landing in your inbox or search results.
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Is it possible to create a Gmail filter that works on headers other than From, To, Subject?
I've forwarded one of my really old email addresses to Gmail. I'd like to create a filter so that any mail to that old address is always labeled properly in Gmail.
I can create a Gmail filter with ...
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In what order are filters processed in Gmail?
If I have multiple filters that match the same email do they all get processed? If so, in what order are they processed? What if the first filter matched modifies the email to make it match (or no ...
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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 ...
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How can I filter my Gmail messages that aren't labeled?
I'd like to sort all of my Gmail messages that don't have label, so I can process them (I miss some every now and then). I can sort by every label by clicking on it at the left, but how do you sort ...
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Is there a way to filter RSS feeds in Google Reader?
I have a number of busy RSS feeds for which I only find a subset of the messages to be of interest to me. Is there a way to configure Google reader to only display certain RSS items that match ...
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How to specify “OR” conditions for gmail filter
How can I filter messages in GMail using boolean OR conditions. For example, I can specify addresses in the To: or From: fields, but this only matches emails that meet both criteria. How can I match ...
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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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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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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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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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Creating a filter in Gmail that applies more that one label
I've been using Filters for a while in Gmail but have always been wondering if such a feature is available. Is it possible to somehow have a Gmail filter apply more than one label?
As you can see ...
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Is it possible to do a web search filtered for the user's comprehension level?
Do any of the major search engines support a filter to indicate the comprehension level of the user and thus to filter out content beyond their scope? So for example, if someone wanted to find results ...
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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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Why doesn't the Gmail “mute” button show up for me?
In Gmail, there's a nice feature where you can "mute" a thread so that new replies on it no longer get marked as new, so that you aren't bothered by them any more. (Supposedly. I've never actually ...
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How can I perform the same action on all results of a label/search in Gmail?
When I search, for example, "something label:somelabel" I get 1000 results paginated by 25 (my settings). 'Select all' selects only the 25 on the current page, I would like to delete all of them ...
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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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How can I filter incoming email based on plus addressing in Gmail?
I currently have some basic filters in Gmail, but the other day I heard someone mention you could use a plus sign in your address to filter incoming email?
Can someone elaborate?
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In Gmail can I set up a filter for all messages between a group of people?
I run a choir consisting of a few friends (12 to be precise) and we tend to communicate via mass email to each other.
I want to set up a filter in GMail so that it will label all emails to do with ...
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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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Automating filter rule creation in gmail?
I get cases where I start getting e-mails from people I am not interested in getting.
These are not SPAM, just boring e-mails.
In such cases I tend to create the filter rule that makes all the ...
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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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Google Reader statistics and filter
I have over 200 subscriptions in my Google Reader and I'm reading almost 300 RSS entries everyday. So my problem is to determine most powerful sources for me. So what I need to see is the statistics ...
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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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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 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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Is there an API for searching only recently indexed webpages?
I'm looking for an API that allows me to do a web search query, but filtered by how recently the page was published or indexed (could be indexed by Google or Yahoo! or anyone that indexes a similar ...
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Birthday notifications for a select group of friends on Facebook
I don't want to be notified about every friend's birthday on Facebook. There are only several birthdays that I want to be notified of. Is there any way to filter these messages somehow (e.g. by adding ...
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Gmail: using filters to delete all messages that match [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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Blocking stupid videos on YouTube
There are a lot of really stupid/trolly/fake videos on YouTube. I'd like to block them forever when I see them, so I don't accidentally click on them in the future, and maybe block the uploader, too, ...
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How can I filter out Facebook notification emails?
I'm trying to create a filter on my Facebook email so that notifications are labeled as one category, while other account-related messages are labeled something else. The problem is that they both ...
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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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How can I filter Amazon.com results to exclude 3rd party merchants?
I'd like to search Amazon.com for products that Amazon sells without having to see all the third party merchants products. I've tried using some userscripts and some chrome extensions that claim to ...
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Google Spreadsheets Filter() - referencing source array in criteria
The filter() function looks through a source array, and filters it according to condition
=FILTER(A:A,ISNUMBER(A:A))
My source array is a rather long formula, so i end up repeating the same formula ...
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Filter out Google Calendar invites from people not in my contact list
How do I set up a filter in Gmail account so that invitations from people not in my contact list are automatically deleted (and the event removed from my calendar)?
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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: 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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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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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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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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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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Use same filter for several pipes on Yahoo! Pipes
In Yahoo! Pipes I want to use one master pipe that runs some filters for RSS feeds.
These filters should then be used in individual pipes for RSS feeds I create.
Example:
Filter-Pipe: Filter out ...
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How to filter out jobs offers from Bangalore/India in LinkedIn?
In my LinkedIn account I am a member of many professional groups where different discussions, job ads etc are posted.
However I would like to filter out all job ads that come from India, Bangalore ...
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Is there a way to search labels based on stemming in Gmail?
Say I have the label Home/Family/Kids and Home/Family, is there any search expression that can match both of these with a single term? For example, I want to use a search query like ...
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Is there a way to specify more precise site category in Google Search?
Is there a Google Search feature to show results from a very specific category?
For example, show only results from software company websites, or social networking websites, etc. I am aware of a few ...
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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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Filter Facebook notifications?
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a greasemonkey script or something for Firefox which will either filter, or indicate my notifications in Facebook such that I can either:
See only notifications for ...
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How can I filter someone else's list of contacts in LinkedIn by location?
When I view someone else's list of contacts in LinkedIn, if I want to filter these by location or other variable...is this possible?
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Programatically change subject line and forward mail - Google Apps
Gmail groups email with the same subject line into a conversation view (threaded).
I've never had an issue with this functionality until I began using an online fax service (myfax). I can't label / ...
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How do I look at just the reviews of the format I'm buying on Amazon
I just bought a Kindle, but when I look at reviews of a Kindle book I see reviews of the paperback and hardbacks. How do I filter the reviews so I just see the specific Kindle copy reviews?
This ...
