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I don't know of a way of doing it directly in Google Reader however Yahoo have a particularly nice rss/atom feed processing engine called Yahoo Pipes. This allows you to pull a number of feeds from other places apply translations and filtering to them, and then re-publish the modified feed. You can then set Google Reader (Or any other preferred RSS reader ...
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GMail natively does not have this feature. However, there is a Filter Import/Export feature in the labs that you could use, though it involves editing xml.
Once you enable the feature and Save Changes, go to Settings > Filters.
This will result in an xml file. You could edit the xml file to move the order of the filters, and then reverse the process ...
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I just tried it, and it seems that they happen in the order they are defined in the list:
If you have:
Star email message from:foo
Apply label to is:starred
... then it will apply the label to the message. If you reverse the order, it won't.
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One way you can do it is by using the minus operator on the label operator. So for example:
-label:tag-a -label:tag-b -label:tag-c
or for one-word tags:
-label:{taga tagb tagc}
This is probably only practical if you don't have a lot of labels.
Additionally, if they don't change often, you can include a link to this search so that it easily accessible ...
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This is your regular email address:
example@gmail.com
This is your email with plus addressing:
example+seed@gmail.com
When you create a filter, just filter for messages sent To the one with the particular word after the plus (+) sign.
So your filter will look like this:
To: example+seed@gmail.com
Now you can just hand out that email ...
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No, there is no way to do this.
But, you can use the Google Labs project Filter import/export under Settings > Labs in Gmail.
Install Filter import/export in Labs
Create your filter
Go to Settings > Filters
Check the checkbox next to your new filter
Click "export" at the bottom, this will create an xml file called mailFilters.xml
You should have a ...
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Updated:
There is a blog today about updated Gmail search modifiers that allow you to do this with a simple search!
has:nouserlabels
Note: Because of Gmails threading you will have labels on some of the messages in the derived list because some messages in a thread will have labeling while some won't.
Original answer:
The Gmail advanced search help page ...
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There's a GreaseMonkey script called Google Reader Filter which allows you to specify lists of words to kill - if the word appears in the title, that item gets dimmed.
More info here and here
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You can use from:(!%sender%) to filter all emails but the ones from a particular sender. For example, if you only wanted to receive emails from Facebook, you would use from:(!facebook) in a filter that trashes all matching emails.
To add such an example filter, put !facebook inside the "from" field when creating filter options.
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If you are talking about searching, then @akira's question is correct. However, it sounds like you are asking about how to use this condition in a filter.
The trick is that you can put whatever search criteria you want in the filter's Has the words field. For any other field it will prefix your criteria with the field name. For example, if you type ...
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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: ...
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Remember that you can use any gmail search operator in a filter via the Has the words: textbox since gmail just AND's together the operators that are filled in via the filter dialog.
I'll suggest you start by trying this:
Create a filter that finds new emails with your name in them and applies a temporary label. The search operation you would use in the ...
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Any time you save a filter, it goes to the bottom of the list. Once you know what order you want your filters in, open each one in order, and just click Save without changing anything. When you get to the last one, the filters are all in order.
Of course, you would have to repeat this if you ever really did have to change a filter.
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it can't seem to do auto-replies
I beg to differ.
Make sure Canned Responses is activated:
Then you create a filter for emails that are sent to your old email address:
to:(my.old.address@example.com)
You call the filter, say, Old. Then you select a canned response for that filter. Actually, you don't even need to do that. You can autorespond to ...
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According to this Google Groups post, it is not possible:
Unfortunately, a filter can only apply a single label. If you want
to apply more than one you need to create more than one filter, with
the same search criteria.
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Currently I am using the from field for this so that it appears in the beginning. For example, I type -(DOC: My message here) which becomes from:(-(DOC: My message here)), and doesn't affect the filter at all, since it is very unlikely that someone's name or email matches the message I write.
To clarify, for this message to affect the filter, the from ...
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There is an extension called Tweetfilter for Safari 5+
The above image is from Google Chrome using Twitter's web client.
As an example I will try with the current trending Charlie Sheen.
So I match the following in the filter
Charlie
Sheen
CharlieSheen
@charliesheen
And the results that do not appear in my timeline.
Notice this will not ...
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I'm afraid you can't. Looking at Gmail help, there's nothing related to searching within attachments.
You can specify a file name, but that's it:
filename:physicshomework.txt
Or you could save files you want to search through to Google Docs.
The simple explanation why it's not possible is that it would require a tremendous amount of indexing to be ...
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There is no search operator to restrict to the body of a message. I would recommend setting up a filter with your name in the "Has the words" field, and apply the label as your action. There is no need to add "is:unread" because filters apply to incoming messages.
Likewise you cannot remove the label via filter or take automatic action after the message has ...
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Both the individual message action menu () and the More Actions menu () have a Filter message like these option. You can do this from an individual thread or select multiple emails and use the More Actions menu.
There isn't any way to send these into an existing filter without going through the long edit process.
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You can make the mute button come back when filtering by including the is:unread filter and adding -is:muted. I have the following query displayed beneath my inbox using the Multiple Inboxes lab, and it allows me to mute conversations:
label:Support is:unread -is:muted
This shows me anything labelled Support that I haven't read, and that isn't muted yet. ...
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In my case I had lots of rubbish in the All Mail folder, mail that should have been deleted but accumulated there for some reason. I wanted to get rid of it without touching anything that was labelled including the nonuser labels. This did the trick:
has:nouserlabels -in:Inbox -in:Draft -in:Sent
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Ah, according to Gmail's help 'Using advanced search' I should be able to write
(from:<Person1> OR to:<Person1>) (from:<Person2> OR to:<Person2>) ...
in the 'Has the words' field.
I shall try this...
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LinkedIn will do this for you - no need for regex filters!
On the list of jobs, whether they are within a group or just on the main LinkedIn job search page, the checkbox menus on the left side of the screen allow you to filter jobs by location as well as by company, industry, date posted, and many other criteria.
You can either have the location be part ...
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The only solution that I could find was to access my GMail account with a 3rd party service like Mail2Web (not free) via IMAP and look for mails in the [Gmail]/Important IMAP folder.
I ended up using Ultimate Notifier because my goal was to get push notifications to my iPhone for important mail. Details on: http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/8250/3566
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I do something similar with some of my pipes.
If you want a single feed as your output:
Use the Fetch Feed component from the Sources category to retrieve the feeds. A single instance of it can retrieve more than one feed.
If you need more than one source (eg. if you want to use other pipes as sources via the "My Pipes" category), use the Union component ...
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Here is the algorithm:
Perform the search in your mails.
Go to the selection of your messages (checkbox icon with small down arrow) and choose "Select all".
As long as there are some other messages the GMail will prompt you with a message above your mailbox (see picture).
Just click on this message and you now can delete/move/mark as spam all these ...
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You could use a keyboard macro tool like autohotkey (or the simpler texter, based on autohotkey) to define a single keystroke to execute a series of commands like that (see the gmail keyboard shortcuts for how to do the whole sequence with keystrokes & not a mouse - start with "." to get the "More Actions" drop-down).
Yet another way is to create a ...
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To my surprise, the solution to me was using the vertical bar | between emails instead of the comma , in the TO filed during filter creation.
Example:
name1@domain.com | name2@domain.com | name3@domain.com`
The search box would look like:
to:(name1@domain.com | name2@domain.com | name3@domain.com)
I got a popup message from Gmail saying that using ...
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Any and all GMail filter rules that match will run and do their thing.
I'm not sure it's possible to create rules that potentially conflict. The filter criteria available are:
From
To
Subject
Containing words
Doesn't contain words
Has attachment
You can't affect any of these with the filter actions that are available, so I don't see how one rule could ...
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