Questions tagged [gmail-filters]
Pre-made or user-made sets of rules that perform different actions on incoming or outgoing emails in Gmail.
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How to specify "OR" conditions for Gmail filter
How can I filter messages in Gmail using boolean OR conditions? For example, I can specify addresses in the To: or From: fields, but this only matches emails that meet both criteria. How can I match ...
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Is it possible to create a Gmail filter that works on headers other than From, To, Subject?
I've forwarded one of my really old email addresses to Gmail. I'd like to create a filter so that any mail to that old address is always labeled properly in Gmail.
I can create a Gmail filter with ...
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How to use boolean AND and NOT operators in Gmail search
I'm trying to find mails that have one address in the recipients but another not in it.
I'm trying things like from:address1@gmail.com and not from:address2@gmail.com and from:(address1@gmail.com and ...
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How can I filter my Gmail messages that aren't labeled?
I'd like to sort all of my Gmail messages that don't have label, so I can process them (I miss some every now and then). I can sort by every label by clicking on it at the left, but how do you sort ...
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Create a Gmail filter for Calendar Notifications
I'd like to create a Gmail filter to filter all of my Google Calendar notifications into a separate folder.
Google Calendar notifications have headers that look like the following:
Reply-To: Helen ...
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In what order are filters processed in Gmail?
If I have multiple filters that match the same email do they all get processed? If so, in what order are they processed? What if the first filter matched modifies the email to make it match (or no ...
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How do I execute a filter in Gmail for the current email in my inbox?
I know how to create a filter and once it's created it will execute this filter on all incoming mail. However is there a way to execute this filter on what I already have received?
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Creating a filter in Gmail that applies more than one label
I've been using Filters for a while in Gmail but have always been wondering if such a feature is available. Is it possible to somehow have a Gmail filter apply more than one label?
As you can see ...
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How can I set a Gmail filter that finds email sent "only to me"?
I want to create a filter for all email sent by me only to me.
I do that because when I have a note that I want to remember, I send it to myself. I want to label all those notes so I can find them ...
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How to make Gmail automatically label incoming emails
I would like to set it up so that Gmail labels incoming mail based on which business email of mine the emails are sent to. I have two business emails that come to my Gmail account.
For instance, if ...
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Create Gmail filter that contains a special character
I'm trying to create a search filter when I receive automated emails .
The emails that I want to filter always contain the following format:
Gitlab | foo | bar | herp a derp
How can I create a ...
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Gmail filter with regular expressions
I use Gmail and I'm receiving lots of emails I want to filter. They all have in common that the subject is like these:
Some words - r1234 - Some more words
Some words - r987665 - Some more words
Some ...
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Search for special characters like “!” in Gmail subject [duplicate]
Does anyone know if in Gmail you can search all messages that have an exclamation mark in the subject?
I would like to create a filter that adds a red ! label to the messages that have an exclamation ...
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Is it possible to create a Gmail filter that works on arbitrary headers?
(Not a dup: this very similar question really asks about the DeliveredTo header).
Bugzilla provides a number of headers telling you why you received a mail, such as X-Bugzilla-Reason. How can I ...
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Using a custom star type with a Gmail filter
I have set up a Gmail filter that marks all incoming mail from a certain mailing list with a star. Right now, the filter automatically applies the standard yellow star. How can I set it to use the ...
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Can Gmail automatically base "send from" address on the "to" address?
In short:
In Gmail, is there a way to let the "send from" address change automatically depending on which of my accounts it was sent to?
In long:
I recently joined a team (of developers) and they ...
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How to filter messages with animated emoji in the subject in Gmail?
I was trawling through my spam folder (which I rarely do, because Gmail rarely has false positives) and I noticed something interesting:
Something like over half of the messages have at least one ...
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When is it okay to use "label:", "in:", or "is:" in a Gmail Filter?
When you try to use any of the queries label:, in:, or is: in a Gmail filter, you will see the following warning:
Warning: Filter searches containing
"label:", "in:", or "is:" criteria are
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Filtering subjects with NOT(-)
I want to filter every message that is sent to a mailing list, except those that begin (or just contain) "Re:"
In "Has the words" I've put.
subject:(mailing-list) subject:(-re)
However that will ...
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Filter messages with (no subject) in Gmail
Is there any workaround or way to filter or search for messages that have no subject line?
I can see there is no way to filter messages when some field is "missing".
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Gmail filter on partial "words"
I've got a Gmail email filter rule set up to prevent email from various senders from going into spam. Here's a simplified version of the rule:
Matches:
from:(abc.org.nz|def.nz|westpac|mailman|...
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Gmail's label and skip the inbox filter
I am using Gmail. I want incoming mail that matches a label to skip the inbox. This does not seem to work. The instructions from Gmail include the following:
To keep organized, many people like ...
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How to block "via" senders in Gmail
I have this annoying problem in Gmail. Spammers are by-passing the Gmail spam filters and are so clever that I am not able to create a manual filter of my own to block them. They are sending me junk ...
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Gmail permanently delete a message via a filter
When choosing to delete an email via a filter, the message is sent to the trash. Is there any way to permanently delete it instead?
I tried deleting it twice with two different filters (the logic is ...
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How to Filter Emails Forwarded to Gmail Alias?
I have a Google Apps email (me@business.com) set to auto-forward all mail to my personal Gmail (me@gmail.com). I have added the me@business.com address to my personal Gmail so I can send mail as me@...
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Automatic Gmail labels based on sender
Is there some way to make Gmail apply a label to incoming mail automatically based on the sender? For instance if Bob is my client, and all contact I have with Bob is work-related, can I make Gmail ...
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How can I filter incoming email based on plus addressing in Gmail?
I currently have some basic filters in Gmail, but the other day I heard someone mention you could use a plus sign in your address to filter incoming email?
Can someone elaborate?
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Can you create rules in Gmail?
In MS Outlook, you can create rules so different kinds of mail can go in different folders. Can you do the same thing in Gmail, so all your emails from a list go in a specific subfolder instead of ...
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Gmail filters/labels: Force email to stay in Inbox?
I receive email to these addresses:
my-team@example.com : This is my team's primary method of communication. I want all of this email to go to my Inbox.
other-team@example.com : This belongs to ...
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How to apply filters to existing mails in Gmail? [duplicate]
I created a filter in Gmail, but forgot to apply it to already existing messages. Is there any way to apply filters to existing messages?
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How to add filter and label to group in Gmail contacts?
I have my Gmail contacts sorted into groups. In my mail I also have labels associated with filters-for specific people I have a filter associated with a label.
For the filter creation, how do I ...
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Gmail Filters are tagging emails, but not moving emails to a designated label
I have set up filters for many contacts, assuming (I know what they say about ASSUMING) the filtered emails would be archived in the appropriate folder. The emails do show in my Inbox with the correct ...
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Pause/suspend a Gmail filter
I have a number of Gmail filters acting on my incoming e-mail.
I'm trying to find a way to "pause" a filter. By that I mean to temporarily turn it off without deleting it. (Some are fairly detailed ...
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How to filter by messages, not by conversation?
I have been emailing my Gmail account error messages from a project I am working on.
I am trying to use Gmail filters/labels to sort out the class of errors. But because the subject line is ...
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How to filter all emails sent VIA domain.com [duplicate]
I keep receiving spam mails from different senders using different domain names (e.g. newsletter@buyerkart.info via utilityinbox.com).
I could create a filter to catch all mail from newsletter@...
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Filtering Gmail for emails that include a plus sign
I know you can filter emails in Gmail by utilizing plus signs (e.g., bob+something@gmail.com). But is there a way to filter for the opposite - that is, include emails in gmail only where a plus sign ...
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Gmail, how to forward email to group using a filter
I run the office lotto syndicate.
I get a results email that I want to detect via a filter, and forward to a group containing the lotto syndicate members.
Is this possible? I can't seem to figure ...
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Stop Gmail from running all filters
Has anyone figured out how to get Gmail to stop processing filters once a condition is met? I would like to avoid having certain messages potentially get multiple labels. As great as Gmail is, the ...
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Is there a way to know what Gmail filters apply to a given email?
I have so many filters that I don't know which ones are making some emails skip the inbox. Is there a way to know the filters that match a given email?
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Send a copy of outbound messages to another address
Is there a way to have a copy of any message sent from a Gmail account sent to another address?
I've got any messages coming to my address copied to another (see this question for one solution, ...
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Forward only important mail in Gmail
Is there a way to forward (or to get in any other way) the important mail as they arrive (or shortly after that) from the priority inbox to another mail account without forwarding the unimportant ...
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Is there a way to create new Category Tabs in Gmail?
I love the idea of categories. Kind of like applied filters.
I'd love to create my own custom applied filters as new categories, and be able to list those categories on the front page.
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How do I auto-reply to text messages received through Google Voice?
I recently got a new phone number, and I want people who contact me at my old number to be automatically informed of my new number. I've ported my old phone number to Google Voice and set up a ...
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Create filter if body of message contains my name
I have a couple on-going conversation threads in Gmail with a number of different people. Is there a way to setup a filter so that it will add a label if the body of any new, unread email contains my ...
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Composing a Gmail filter: "on this list and not to me"?
I filter all mail received from the mail list mylist with this filter and label it for later reading:
Matches: list:(<mylist.example.com>)
I would like to modify this for this logic:
if the ...
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Setup a Gmail filter to be applied to messages that do not contain a given text
I really need to setup filter in Gmail but it is not working. Where and how I have to enter the words which will be in the message I want to receive, and if the message do not contain those words to ...
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Keep getting spam which have the same “mailed-by” field. Marking spam doesn't work. Can’t create filter based on this. How to mark these as spam?
I keep getting messages with different From but the same mailed-by field. I need to mark these messages as spam, but simply doing so doesn't work.
Creating filters searches for From values only, so ...
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How do you create a filter in Gmail that will apply to all composed/sent messages?
While having filters to simplify the filing process of incoming messages is convenient, one of the aspects of setting rules in Outlook that seems to be missing in Gmail is the ability to set rules for ...
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Can I filter incoming mail based on membership in a circle?
With the addition of circles to Gmail, I'd like to be able filter emails from members of various circles, ostensibly to apply a label to those emails. I know I can open a circle and see all the ...
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