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Gmail uses Perl regex for searching. I think this string should do it.
from:(/jobsnext((.)*\@yahoo\.in$)/)
If you replace the dot with \d, you would only include digits, now it includes every possible string after the jobsnext.
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Use an alternate browser than your regular one
Open a private browsing tab or window - all browsers have them (Chrome calls it "Incognito window", for example)
Browse to your spam folder and view messages - do not confirm the "show images" option!
Close private tab - nothing got saved to your machine
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I have found the answer here.
Resolution:
In Calendar: Click the gear, select "Settings",
Find the "Automatically add invitations to my calendar" section,
Set its value to "No, only show invitations to which I have responded".
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Go to Settings, select "Filters". Scroll to the bottom and select "New filter". Put @domain.com in the from field. If you want it to only check email that have gone to spam, put in:spam in the has the words field. Now click "Create filter with this search":
Now, an new window will appear. Tick "Delete it", then click "Create filter", and you ought to be ...
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Gmail's spam filters aren't simply based on the Senders email address. And it is also dependent on other users flagging similar emails as spam. Gmail determines that a particular email is spam by seeing how the global gmail community sees that email.
If all this spam / unwanted messages are coming from a single email address then you can set up a filter to ...
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I forward all my mail from one of my Gmail accounts to another Gmail account, including what Gmail would normally filter to the Spam folder. I use the is:spam query with the Never send it to Spam rule in the inbound filter to allow spam to be forwarded. Do note the use of is rather than in.
Therefore, I imagine you could do the same with the following ...
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You could try POPing/IMAPing your email to an email client, using one of the various spam filter solutions.
Back in the days before I was 100% using Gmail (2008?), I was a big fan of SpamPal under Windows. But it looks now to be a dead project (although there are some recent kudos on the sourceforge page, so I think it still might work).
One caveat with ...
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I'm quite sure this is currently not possible from within Gmail.
You can try to sync ALL your mail with f.e. Thunderbird or Outlook and look for a way to do the trick in that program, I don't know much of these so I don't know if it's possible with them.
But I'm sure Gmail can't.
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