Web Applications

Questions tagged [gmail-filters]

Ask Question

Pre-made or user-made sets of rules that perform different actions on incoming or outgoing emails in Gmail.

425 questions
Newest
Active
Bountied
Unanswered
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0
votes
0answers
37 views

Search on via field in GMail

Is there a way to search the via part of a from address in GMail? I'm trying to set up a filter which finds the following message that comes from: no-reply@another-company.com via my-company-domain....
1
vote
0answers
26 views

Why does gmail fail to apply the filters for imported emails?

I forward my emails from (1) IEEE using an alias (@ieee.org) (2) AOL as imported via POP (@aol.com) I use the filters to label incoming email. I noticed that the filters I set up in gmail only work ...
1
vote
1answer
33 views

Filter to exclude a specific portion of a subject in gmail

I want to creat a filter that will include in the subject "Jane Doe Coursework that needs to be completed." However, I do NOT want to include the emails that return with the subject "Finalized: Jane ...
0
votes
1answer
46 views

What happens to new mail in Gmail if I delete a label but not filter?

Considering that the related filter still exists, if I delete a label in Gmail where will the mail be?
2
votes
0answers
29 views

GMail Filters not working

I have been receiving a lot of spam with the sender ending in something like this: @kmfiadyzlf4ayelp.com Setting up filters isn't working because the domain is constantly "randomized" i.e. never the ...
1
vote
0answers
40 views

Gmail: make a rule so emails are not send to specific email address

I have an email address on Gmail (E.G: john.doe@gmail.com) In that mailbox, I also receive emails (forwarded) from an email work address (E.G: john.doe@work.be). This is an Outlook Exchange box and ...
1
vote
0answers
17 views

Gmail filter with multiple emails

I'm creating an email filter for archiving and tagging emails. If I add manually one emails, it works perfect, but if I add multiple mails from a group from my Google Contact List (all done from the ...
0
votes
1answer
29 views

Two Gmail filters applied to the same email

I'm having an issue where 2 filters are being applied to a single email. Resulting in that email ending up in two different labels. As an example: Filter A is for a general email box that multiple ...
0
votes
0answers
41 views

How to configure sent to me filter in Gmail that it doesn't includes chat messages?

I have set up a filter for mails sent to my email address in Gmail, This being most important I need to keep an eye on the mails getting collected under this label. Now we guys in office also use ...
0
votes
0answers
34 views

How to search for dangerous messages on GMail?

I am using a filter to prevent mails from getting moved to the spam folder, because I want to see them. As a consequence some mails are correctly prefaced with: This message was not sent to Spam ...
0
votes
0answers
44 views

How to automatically forward future email in Gmail from a specific sender but only on the specific date

I receive delivery note's in my Gmail from different Supplier on the same date of delivery and I want them to be forwadeded to another third party email on the same day automatically. The trouble is ...
-1
votes
1answer
49 views

How can I filter all event or meeting responses coming in without extra context in gMail?

I am looking for a filter that removes emails automatically from my inbox if they are responses to events and meetings set up in google calendar. I want this to be as smart as possible Keeping ...
1
vote
0answers
31 views

How can I make Gmail re-route all incoming mail to a specific folder except from addresses I “whitelist?”

The problem is, I'm getting tons of marketing emails, newsletters, etc., and all of these companies share their email lists with their partners. Plus, my unsubscribe requests aren't always honored, ...
0
votes
0answers
31 views

Block email based on a To/recipient address

I use Gmail and have found my name added to a work mailing list without my consent. Now, I keep getting emails from various colleagues who simply send an email to the mailing list address. There is no ...
0
votes
0answers
46 views

Gmail importing filter XML “Failed or Skipped” when selecting “Apply new filters to existing email”

I created an XML by exporting my filters. Then modified it and imported it again. All runs fine. However, when importing and ticking Apply new filters to existing email, the status of all imported ...
1
vote
0answers
21 views

How to filter gmail based on html

Is there any way to filter gmail based on html? In particular, I get tons of political spam from people who have signed up using my email address. It is always from ngpvan and there is always an ...
0
votes
0answers
29 views

How to separate GitHub pull requests from issues using a Gmail filter?

In Gmail, I would like to apply the label Code to all GitHub notification emails concerning pull requests, and Bug to all those concerning issues. Specifically, any message that gets a "View Pull ...
0
votes
0answers
43 views

Why does similar spam email keep appearing in Gmail inbox even when I've dragged to spam?

I've received a "Your Apple Id has been locked" spam email multiple times in my Gmail inbox. Each time, I've dragged it to the Spam folder. However, subsequent emails with the same title still appear ...
0
votes
0answers
41 views

Apply Gmail filters to sublabels only

I'm migrating my email to Gmail and I'm trying to apply filters as follows. Me.com - Me - Job Promos - Education I would like to filter out certain @ domains and stick them into either Job ...
0
votes
0answers
19 views

Limiting the number of Gmail Labels and Filters

I'm trying to organize my Gmail inbox by using labels and filters, especially as I have a few Twitter accounts that need separate addresses. So lets say my email address is: myrealname@gmail.com ...
0
votes
1answer
25 views

Suitable free email Service as the secondary account recommended by Bugzilla [closed]

Bugzilla sends the following to a new user (after receiving the primary address): We recommend using a secondary account or free web email service (such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or similar) to ...
1
vote
1answer
74 views

G Suite selective email migration from Gmail

I am interested in partially migrating emails from my personal google account to my new G Suite account. I want to migrate all emails containing a certain label and no others. I know there is an ...
0
votes
0answers
81 views

Move labeled subset of Gmail messages to another account

I want to move my messages from one Gmail account to another, but not all and that is the problem. All manuals in the web shows how to set up forwarding/import that moves all messages, but I don't ...
2
votes
0answers
106 views

Gmail Filter Not Archiving Emails

I have the following Gmail filter: Matches: to:(marketing.emails@mail.com) Do this: Skip Inbox, Mark as read, Apply label "marketing.emails@mail.com", Never mark it as important The filter marks the ...
0
votes
1answer
70 views

Shared email address between husband and wife to get bills

I would like to have shared email address that my wife and I can access. The following is our use case. We pay our house hold bills for several utilities; like broad band internet, electricity and ...
0
votes
0answers
30 views

How to block an entire domain zone using gmail filters?

EG I want to block the .us domain as I've been getting tons of spam emails from randomly generated spam domains in that zone. If I create a filter "from:(@.us)" it also filters all the senders which ...
0
votes
0answers
41 views

Set up a Gmail spam filter out all emails with no subject and containing only a web url?

Is there a way to educate Gmail to directly delete all the received emails with no subject and containing a single line with a web url? I could not find anything conventional to achieve this goal!
0
votes
1answer
33 views

I get too much Spam

In the last 3 or 4 months I have been receiving a huge amount of Spam. Most of it goes directly to bin, and then I have to report it as Spam. I also get a few that go straight to inbox. Everyday I ...
1
vote
0answers
33 views

Filter Gmail Updates folder

Spent a couple of hours sorting out my mailbox in MS Outlook. Emptied the bin/deleted folder, cleared sent items etc. Log onto gmail.com and noticed my storage is exactly the same. Checked all the ...
0
votes
0answers
32 views

Filtered email list, then send new contacts to specific contact list

I have a filter to grab all the emails sent to a sub email address. Ie: example+mylist@gmail.com. I also have a Contact list My List that I would like the email address that are sending to example+...
1
vote
1answer
40 views

Prevent label from being applied

How can I prevent GMail from applying certain labels to messages. For example, I have a "Work" label and a "Home" label. Gmail is labeling some messages as both "Work" and "Home." How do I prevent ...
2
votes
0answers
26 views

Can I filter Drive emails by doc ID?

I want to filter all Drive comment notification emails for a couple particular docs to get a particular label? Is this possible? I had hoped that either searching for the 34-character ID from the URL ...
0
votes
0answers
74 views

Lots of emails on Gmail go to spam that shouldn't and filters aren't always helping

I have a G Suite account that I use for support for an app. I use Freshdesk to handle those support emails. Emails from into gmail, then they are forwarded to Freshdesk and when I reply Freshdesk uses ...
0
votes
0answers
29 views

Filter spam email from my email address with different replyto header

I keep getting emails that come from my email address (obviously not sent by me but spoofed by someone). These emails will have a significantly different reply-to header. Do you know how I could ...
2
votes
0answers
25 views

Gmail Filtering

I have Gmail filters set up to label incoming mail based on the the company name in the subject, and it is working just fine (For my case they are marked as read and labeled). If however the subject, ...
0
votes
0answers
68 views

Catch All Filter G Suite

I have recently set up GSuite on my domain and am really enjoying the productivity and getting myself organized. I have successfully set up a catchall email which is an alias and is catchall@...
1
vote
0answers
37 views

How to change older_than syntax in Gmail filter

I'm trying to create a filter in Gmail to delete old mail. In the part hasTheWord, I wrote label:foo_mail/fuur older_than:20d The filter is working but when I tried recording it I got this error ...
1
vote
1answer
70 views

Gmail filter forwarding - to numerous emails, most of which I don't control

We're currently using Thunderbird for mail filtering, and have a number of mail filters set up to mostly forward emails with a particular keyword to staff or business partners. We have no direct ...
0
votes
1answer
89 views

How can I take action on incoming Gmail emails (via a saved filter) that do not include a plus sign in the to line?

I use email aliases for my email account to design incoming email filters for mail sent to me from different sources, for example: me+newsletter@gmail.com me+bills@gmail.com me@gmail.com It's easy ...
4
votes
1answer
136 views

How can I filter Gmail emails that do not include a plus sign in the to line?

I use email aliases for my email account to design filters sent to me from different sources, for example: me+newsletter@gmail.com me+bills@gmail.com me@gmail.com It's easy for me to set up filters ...
0
votes
1answer
71 views

How to create filters for incoming G-Mail messages

I'm setting up a new website/community and want to use my G-Mail account as the primary address. The problem is that I'm going to have a lot of emails coming through from different sources for ...
0
votes
0answers
27 views

Categories in Gmail don't match tabs

Is there a reason why/way to fix Gmail tabs and categories to properly match. If I do a search using category:updates, this doesn't match whats under the updates tab. I wanted to apply a filter but if ...
2
votes
0answers
47 views

Creating a Gmail filter to delete all emails sent to that Gmail address

I need to write a Gmail filter that deletes any email that comes into my Gmail inbox addressed to that Gmail address. I need to make an exception for responses that come from accepting or declining a ...
0
votes
0answers
35 views

How can I forward Craigslist Auto-Alerts to a Google Groups email?

I am searching for a housing with five+ friends. I'd like my automatic craigslist housing alert emails to be forwarded to a group email so everyone can see the same listing at the same time and ...
0
votes
0answers
24 views

How to combine multi-field Gmail filters

I understand you can use operators in a single field, such as from:(team.notifications@herokumanager.com OR bot@heroku.com) subject:(Heroku Invoice) However, I would like to combine multi-field ...
1
vote
1answer
97 views

In Gmail's Inbox, is there a way to know if I received a message as a 'To' or as a 'CC'?

When one looks at the listing of one's Gmail inbox, is there a way to distinguish only messages that were sent to the inbox as a To:, and not as CC: or BCC:?
1
vote
1answer
81 views

In gmail, how to filter messages to support@mycompany.com but not if they are also sent to me@mycompany.com

I'm receiving quite a lot of emails for support in my inbox that I want to filter out. A couple of weeks per year I'm on stand-by. In those weeks I need to be able to receive those emails sent to ...
1
vote
1answer
151 views

Searching for mails received on Saturdays in Gmail

I need to get the list of emails sent on a day of the week by a service. Is that possible to find in Gmail? Such as 'only Saturday' emails or 'Sunday & Wednesday' emails? Or any email client ...
0
votes
0answers
54 views

Need a Gmail filter that ignores older emails

I want to set a filter that: Sets filter for matching new emails Does not filter emails before a set date This is because I have 1000s of old emails that I don't want to filter. But seems setting "...
0
votes
1answer
141 views

I accidentally labeled every single message in Gmail

I was recently trying to clean up my Inbox. When I did that, I used filters to clear out all messages and apply them to the correct label. While setting up a particular filter, Gmail crashed. I hit "...

1
2 3 4 5
…
9