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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.
ANDis assumed in your search. Try dropping that and see what you get. – ale Jun 29 '16 at 14:10