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When creating a new email filter in Gmail, can I group AND/OR operators within parentheses to create more advanced conditional rules? For example:
Has the words:
"Ebay" AND ("Guitar" OR "Drum" OR "Bass")
The above is supposed to filter mails that contain the exact word Ebay and one of the exact following: Guitar, Drum or Bass.
AI E. is correct. AND is assumed, OR can be declared. This is according to the Gmail Help article on Advanced Search.
I recommend reviewing it as there are a lot of ways to improve your Gmail searches using the operators in it.
To address your specific example, you can drop the quotes & the AND operator. Quotes are only needed to search for an exact phrase.
Ebay (Guitar OR Drum OR Bass) would be the correct formatting for a Gmail search.
Not sure if things have changed but AND does not work by default for me - what worked for me was using double quotes to cause the AND operator functionality. So "Ebay" Drum would search for Ebay and Drum
ANDis assumed in your search. Try dropping that and see what you get.