How To Add Multiple Emails To A Filter In Gmail

Matt McManus

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Dec 5, 2007, 12:02:39 AM 12/5/07

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I would like to have a filter that applies a label, lets simply say,
"Friends". Is at that place a manner that I can have a filter that I can put
multiple emails into and if an electronic mail comes in with any of those emails
it volition apply the characterization? I actually would prefer not to make xx
private filters that all exercise the aforementioned thing

Zack (Physician)

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December 5, 2007, 12:09:xviii AM 12/5/07

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Matt McManus

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Sean

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Dec 11, 2007, 11:16:11 PM 12/11/07

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Wow, a question that I actually knew the answer to. Or at least *AN*
answer to...

I checked the link even though I had already created several
'multi-filters' on my own through trial-and-error and I detect that you
are supposed to put parentheses around the list of "From" addresses. My
multi-filters seem to work merely fine without the parentheses. Does
anyone know what functionality I might non accept noticed was missing?

voyagerfan5761

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December 12, 2007, 3:24:08 PM 12/12/07

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Hey, yep! Come to recollect of information technology, I accept a agglomeration of filters all
targeting multiple senders, and I merely used Sender1 OR Sender2 OR
Sender3...

Possibly that's not as elegant as the parentheses/braces, though. ;)

Voyagerfan5761
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On December eleven, 10:16 am, Sean <smpara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, a question that I actually knew the answer to. Or at least *AN*
> answer to...
>
> I checked the link even though I had already created several
> 'multi-filters' on my own through trial-and-mistake and I observe that you lot
> are supposed to put parentheses around the list of "From" addresses. My
> multi-filters seem to work just fine without the parentheses. Does
> anyone know what functionality I might not have noticed was missing?
>
> Zack (Md) wrote:
> > Applying the same filter to many senders
> >http://post.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8870&topic=12859
>
> > Some other version of this is to use {} instead of (), then:
> > {ad...@domain.com ad...@other.com}
> > is the same as:
> > (ad...@domain.com OR ad...@other.com)
> > Even this will catch, but yous have to be aware it could catch more
> > than you mean:
> > {addy1 addy2}
>

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Sean Murphy

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Jul 27, 2012, 7:46:55 PM 7/27/12

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A quick search should bring up innumerably discussions nearly how to brand suggestions to Google, merely posting them to a user's grouping is actually slightly less constructive than writing them on a slice of paper and called-for it in a consecrated kettle...

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at xi:41 PM, LarryAU <itd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Now that is a neat suggestion, Google how about this be a characteristic asking .

Henry Loh II

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Jul 25, 2013, 6:28:x AM 7/25/13

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I constitute on youtube that y'all need to separate the due east-mails with the vertical line "|" (by using Shift + \, the backslash push). It works for my filters. It is really ridiculous that google makes it then hard to figure out a basic usage - they should explain it or allow mutual separators like commas.

On Wednesday, February six, 2013 10:28:02 PM UTC-8, Christopher Anderson wrote:

Appears that with the latest UI (equally of this writing), that using curly braces instead of parentheses accomplishes the chore.

from:{...@company.com OR sen...@company.com}

On Monday, October 22, 2012 viii:57:xiv AM UTC-seven, Amyn Zindani wrote:

Information technology does not work any more.
I simply tried since the link shows the sometime gmail UI and that is non the case any more.

rahul parab

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Oct 7, 2013, i:19:04 AM 10/7/13

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Is there a way to create one common electronic mail Id for multiple users

Peng Zhang

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April thirty, 2014, 8:55:21 AM 4/xxx/fourteen

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Vertical bar works fine to connect email addresses in gmail filter. Thanks Henry.

Craig Lambie

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Mar xviii, 2015, 9:52:42 PM 3/xviii/15

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This is the all-time tool to apply when adding more than than a couple of email addresses...

Ashish Patel

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Apr thirteen, 2015, 3:56:09 AM 4/xiii/fifteen

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Information technology is every bit simple as it can

Try this

Daniel Gonzalez PP/OF

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Aug 26, 2015, three:35:56 AM 8/26/xv

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Y'all, my practiced sir, you stone!

Олександр Дубів

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Oct 21, 2015, ten:52:00 PM 10/21/15

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I'one thousand really shocked that in 2015 instead of using simple comma, user has SOMEHOW to figure out he has to employ boolean "OR, AND" etc...

Moreover - when in gmail in filter filed (from, to) I choose some email with automobile-completion, gmail inserts comma sign "," automatically giving me intuitive hint that all other email addresses I should explode by "," and not in a manner something like "OR".... Is this a BUG or Characteristic?...

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Ruchika Agarwal

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Nov 3, 2015, iv:39:14 AM 11/3/xv

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How do I create a filter to exclude multiple e-mail addresses from my filter?

Andy

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Nov 3, 2015, 5:08:53 AM 11/3/15

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surya.s...@gmail.com

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On Tuesday, December iv, 2007 at 9:02:39 AM UTC-8, Matt McManus wrote:

You use the | character between the emails. ( I smell regex! :) )

LM

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Feb xi, 2016, 4:21:53 AM 2/11/sixteen

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Ashish - I apologize equally am a new user and need some direction. I am looking to filter all incoming emails from a list of most 40 members AND

if either the subject line or message contains a certain stated number "123" forward that to a specific email.

I will take that filter and and make changes for the values in the subject field or message lines for almost half dozen more than stated numbers:

Filter #1: gmails from whatever 40 members & value "123" in subject or message forwards
Filter #2: same as above but with value ""456" forwards
Filter #3: same every bit above but with value "789" forwards....etc..

I did not quite sympathize the example y'all provided. Practise I need to put all their actual email addresses in the cord 123.com OR 234.com OR.....etc..

I am setting this up in a new email business relationship. I have added all the 40 member email addresses to my contacts and have them as a named group.

Need some insight - give thanks you !!!

Andy

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Feb eleven, 2016, six:03:47 AM 2/eleven/xvi

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rishind...@gmail.com

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Oct vii, 2016, 9:58:58 PM 10/7/sixteen

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@andy tin i not filter mails from bunch of people of similar system of same domain into one label 'domain' as { *@domain.com} .

Thanks

Andy

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October 8, 2016, 2:45:13 AM 10/8/16

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neil...@gmail.com

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Dec 17, 2017, eleven:19:42 PM 12/17/17

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Have a gmail filter divers every bit:

Matches: from:(@aspendigico.com @karole.degnim.kwces.gastroenteritis.stevedyke.com @mx17.footprinttente.com OR child.glftd46354@kb4apnxedy1l0i.w0.wbypfv.tk OR orm.gtwa46385@vr49t8aphe1211.w3124-b0b8.ekwyms.tk OR ....@skill.komacool.com OR Cat Litter Coupons OR Mrs.Christine Lagarde) subject:(FamilySupport OR Messages From Santa OR AsianBeauties Squad OR Invest Gilt Today OR Due north Pole OR NewCarsPlus OR RussianBeautyOnline OR Russian_babes)
Do this: Delete it

Do you think, the symantics of this filter is correct, reason i all the same keep getting these spam messages from these .european union web sites,

Can someone delight make recommendation or betoken the deficiencies... Cheers much !

Andy

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Dec 18, 2017, 1:22:48 AM 12/18/17

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Neil Bh

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Dec xix, 2017, 12:27:14 AM 12/19/17

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Got information technology many thanks

I encounter that i dropped the ball on i of and so where i missed out the OR operator

side by side: i just merely need to remove the subject content, every bit some of these spam owners are changing the bailiwick heading nether the same domain proper noun

Wow .... many thanks once more, i owe you lot ane :)

All-time Wishes

Neil

( see how i spend my retirement :( ... i am over 65..ha ha)

Zack (Doc)

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December xx, 2017, 8:19:32 AM 12/twenty/17

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Besides y'all can simplify with unlike brackets... {} = OR Then... "(a OR b OR c)" is the same as "{a b c}" making your search/filter a little shorter and easier to read.

Neil Bh

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December 21, 2017, 12:10:00 AM 12/21/17

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Thanks - good suggestion,

btw: is at that place a concrete limit to how long a filter can be - significant: # of domains in a given filter ?

Neil Bh

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Dec 22, 2017, 12:22:23 AM 12/22/17

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Folks

can someone communication how to read the domain of this e-mail address without opening it - the email in business organization is "WWWJOSEPH" (it is in the spam binder) placing the cursor on the from normally reveals the address domain ( for filtering purposes)

Thanks in advance

Andy

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Dec 22, 2017, 1:35:57 AM 12/22/17

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Sean Murphy

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December 22, 2017, 2:31:26 AM 12/22/17

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Gmail shows the links in Spam Vew, but they are not clickable. Tin can't even use "Unshorten" from the context menu on the links, until they are declared "Non Spam." (Which is a bad thought if it IS spam just to come across where the link points!) So Gmail makes examining the spam very safe as well as somewhat easy while it is labeled equally "Spam".

Neil Bh

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Dec 22, 2017, 5:ten:31 AM 12/22/17

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Glad to know that spam folder gmail is sanitized against accidental mail opening.

Thanks Sean

Neil Bh

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Dec 22, 2017, 5:11:37 AM 12/22/17

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Thanks Andy for the valuable input

Regards

Neil

Jeremy

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Jan xiv, 2019, 10:33:58 PM 1/14/19

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Is in that location a limit for how many emails can be used in ta single filter? (In other words, (How many times can we use "OR" in a single e-mail filter?)

On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 2:11:37 PM UTC-eight, Neil Bh wrote:

Thanks Andy for the valuable input

Regards

Neil

Folks

can someone advice how to read the domain of this email address without opening it - the email in business organisation is "WWWJOSEPH" (it is in the spam folder) placing the cursor on the from commonly reveals the address domain ( for filtering purposes)

Thank you in accelerate

Nope. In that location is no information at that place. Only the graphical paradigm of the text nosotros can read.

You could put those names into your filter, of course. Filters don't demand to filter on the domain proper name.

I've heard it said that it's not harmful to open an email within Gmail, specially i that's in your Spam label. Gmail doesn't automatically run attached files, like Microsoft's e-mail programs do. Then in that location'due south no chance of infecting your computer simply by opening the message. If information technology's in Spam, Gmail doesn't load the graphics files (which tin send your address back to the sender). Then I remember it might exist OK to open a message as long as you don't endeavour clicking on whatever links -- and once more, if it'due south in Spam already, Gmail doesn't evidence you any of the links so you tin can't click on them anyhow! With the message open up, you lot can see the headers, fifty-fifty open the original message (which is just text so it'south harmless).

Regards,

Andy

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Andy

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Jan 15, 2019, 3:53:57 PM 1/fifteen/xix

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Gmail shows the links in Spam Vew, but they are non clickable. ...

I can't see links in the Spam view. I'm pretty sure they are there, but if I hover the pointer over them, I go nothing. Unless I am missing something, the but ii means I know to encounter what they are, is to either mark them "Not Spam" (ugh!), or "Show Original" and try decoding the HTML (ugh). So I usually take to take Gmail'due south word that the bulletin really is Spam and that I don't desire to know.

Andy

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Jan xv, 2019, 4:01:34 PM 1/15/19

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Is there a limit for how many emails tin be used in ta single filter? (In other words, (How many times can we utilize "OR" in a single email filter?)

I'thousand mostly guessing here, but at that place might be a limit on how many characters you tin can have, not how many "OR" operators you can use. Or that you accomplish the first limit before the second.

I've had filters with more than than a dozen "OR" operators. I THINK I in one case hitting a character limit where I couldn't type anymore (but I might have remembered incorrectly).

Regardless, if there is a limit, I think y'all'll know it when information technology happens. (Which is my way of maxim, why bother asking? If you lot reach it, you reach information technology, and and then bargain with it.)

Andy

Jesse C

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Mar xix, 2019, 11:xvi:39 PM iii/nineteen/xix

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Thank-YOU Henry. Commas wouldn't work.. semicolons wouldn't piece of work.. you have to utilize this STUPID LINE.. or "OR" works too..

Oddly this wasn't in any of the instructions.

Andy

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Mar 20, 2019, one:17:l PM 3/twenty/19

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Perchance it'due south just me, but I don't empathize the confusion.

1. If yous list many things in a Gmail filter without "OR" or {}, all of them are tested, and so all must be met for the filter to do something. The filter acts simply if all of them are truthful. Information technology's as if the word "AND" separates each one. In Gmail, the "AND" is implied. Information technology has always been this way (well, since 2006 it has).

ii. If you lot want a Gmail filter to do something whenever i out of several things are met, but not necessarily all, you must use "OR" between them. It has ever been this way (well, since 2006), and it is well documented. Notation that "or" is not the same every bit "OR".

2a. Gmail has an alternative shortcut to using "OR", and that is to put the things in a listing inside of {curly braces} without "OR". Also true for a very long time, as well documented. These three are equivalent:

something OR another_thing OR yet_another

{something another_thing yet_another}

{something, another_thing, yet_another}

3. Commas or semicolons do aught. If you read somewhere that commas or semicolons did something, then yous weren't reading almost Gmail, or you were reading garbage. AFAIK, Gmail doesn't treat commas or semicolons as anything special.

iv. I have never seen "|" as an allowed operator in Gmail. That's non to say that it doesn't exercise anything, but I exercise non think seeing it in Google'south documentation so I wouldn't trust that it does something. (If it does anything, I guess it would likely mean the same thing every bit "OR", and we take the keyword "OR" to do that. Therefore: Utilize "OR", don't utilize "|".)

five. It helps to have some knowledge of Logic operations, so that you know the difference betwixt (a AND b AND c) and (a OR b OR c). Hopefully most people who desire to make complex Gmail filters have an understanding of Logic already.

6. I don't know what "this STUPID LINE" means.

vii. I gauge at that place's a lot of untrustworthy information that people have written about Gmail. Don't believe what anyone other than Google writes nearly it. It seems people go along trying to brand believe that Gmail works differently than it does. Writing that it does something, doesn't make it truthful.

Regards,

Andy

Jesse C

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Mar 21, 2019, i:33:32 AM iii/21/nineteen

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Hi Andy,

See my boosted info beneath.

1. If you list many things in a Gmail filter without "OR" or {}, all of them are tested, so all must be met for the filter to do something. The filter acts only if all of them are true. It'southward equally if the word "AND" separates each 1. In Gmail, the "AND" is implied. It has always been this way (well, since 2006 it has).

- Past default, on from chrome on a desktop, if yous use this field (run across screenshot below), enter an electronic mail address, and then press enter, information technology adds a comma.. which results in the filter not working at all.

- Whenever you utilize email (any email service since the dawn of e-mail) and send an electronic mail to multiple addresses, yous split up them with a comma or a semicolon. The case beneath puts in a comma past default. This is disruptive.

ii. If you want a Gmail filter to do something whenever one out of several things are met, simply non necessarily all, you must use "OR" between them. It has always been this way (well, since 2006), and it is well documented. Annotation that "or" is non the same as "OR".

- I've never tried to use filters or customize anything in my gmail earlier. Nowhere in these instructions: https://support.google.com/mail/respond/6579?hl=en (to which I was constantly redirected) do I come across anything about how to use these features.

2a. Gmail has an alternative shortcut to using "OR", and that is to put the things in a list inside of {curly braces} without "OR". Too truthful for a very long fourth dimension, also documented. These three are equivalent:

something OR another_thing OR yet_another

{something another_thing yet_another}

{something, another_thing, yet_another}

3. Commas or semicolons do nothing. If you read somewhere that commas or semicolons did something, then you weren't reading about Gmail, or you were reading garbage. AFAIK, Gmail doesn't treat commas or semicolons as anything special.

You're missing the context... (encounter below)

four. I accept never seen "|" as an immune operator in Gmail. That'southward non to say that information technology doesn't do anything, but I do not think seeing it in Google'due south documentation so I wouldn't trust that it does something. (If it does annihilation, I estimate it would probable mean the same affair as "OR", and we accept the keyword "OR" to do that. Therefore: Utilize "OR", don't use "|".)

Here is the youtube video mentioned (which people were saying solved their upshot):

This was the first documentation I could find.. via googling .. that solved my issue. "OR" is much ameliorate and more logical than " |"

5. It helps to take some knowledge of Logic operations, so that you know the deviation between (a AND b AND c) and (a OR b OR c). Hopefully well-nigh people who desire to make complex Gmail filters have an understanding of Logic already.

half dozen. I don't know what "this STUPID LINE" means.

" |"

7. I guess at that place's a lot of untrustworthy information that people have written about Gmail. Don't believe what anyone other than Google writes about it. Information technology seems people go on trying to brand believe that Gmail works differently than it does. Writing that information technology does something, doesn't go far truthful.

The solution in the video did work.

I only created filters in the first identify on advice from an electronic mail I got from Google.

I promise you can run into the source of defoliation. I had no idea how to listing multiple emails in an e-mail filter. Having been used to using email for a long time (but not much of a power user), and given that the field automatically adds a comma, tin you understand the confusion?

Basically (if you look in the bottom of i of the screenshots you lot can run across information technology) I want to have all my bills go to one label and skip the inbox. Information technology wasn't like shooting fish in a barrel to do this with keywords, so I did it by email instead.

I did eventually figure it out.. had I not had fourth dimension yesterday though my inbox would soon have 1000 unread emails again.

Thanks for following up. Hope this helps.

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Jesse C

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Mar 21, 2019, ane:33:41 AM 3/21/19

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- By default, on from chrome on a desktop, if you apply this field (see screenshot below - the "create new filter" "from" field), enter an email address, and and then press enter, information technology adds a comma.. which results in the filter not working at all.

- Whenever you use email (whatsoever email service since the dawn of email) and ship an email to multiple addresses, y'all carve up them with a comma or a semicolon. The example below puts in a comma by default. This is what is disruptive.

I've never gear up upwardly a filter before.. and nowhere in these instructions is there mention of how to add more than than ane email address:

I got the idea from an email from gmail suggesting I set a filter for all my bills. I only found assist on youtube.. so here.

Andy

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- By default, on from chrome on a desktop, if you use this field (see screenshot below), enter an electronic mail address, and so press enter, information technology adds a comma.. which results in the filter not working at all.

I tried it on Chrome on a desktop PC running MS-Windows. Indeed there was a comma at first, but:

(a) The comma did not announced in the final Filter.

(b) The filter does work. Why did you lot say it doesn't?

(c) Even when I purposefully added a comma back and made information technology so that it "stuck" in the last filter, the filter all the same works with the trailing comma.

Why do you think that the comma prevents the filter from working? My experience is otherwise. If your filter didn't work, the cause was not the comma.

- Whenever you apply email (whatsoever email service since the dawn of e-mail) and send an email to multiple addresses, you split up them with a comma or a semicolon. The example below puts in a comma by default. This is confusing.

If "every email service since the dawn of email" uses a comma, so why is a comma confusing?

My estimate is Gmail adds the comma at the terminate, but to arrive easier to write or paste some other email address after the starting time one, without them becoming i long address. It's just a separator. It says, "here is the end of this address", zilch more than. If you outset typing there and yous blazon before the comma, what yous type becomes role of the first address (even if it makes no sense that way). If you lot type after the comma, it becomes role of a second accost.

- I've never tried to utilize filters or customize anything in my gmail before. Nowhere in these instructions: https://support.google.com/mail/reply/6579?hl=en (to which I was constantly redirected) practise I see anything virtually how to apply these features.

Maybe you should have tried the link that was given before in this bulletin thread:

I think it's more helpful for the questions you're asking.

You're missing the context... (see below)

What am I missing?

Do you hateful the fact that at that place are semicolons in that flick? I see them. And? In Gmail, you don't need them because they don't do anything other than divide those addresses. Gmail too uses commas and space characters equally separators between things in a listing. Y'all could write information technology like this:

or this:

Gmail might add or remove extra separating characters as information technology sees fit, but information technology does that only to alter the appearance. They don't change the office.

Here is the youtube video mentioned (which people were proverb solved their issue):

And then let me get this directly. Some 'guy', probably non with Google, heard something on a podcast, so in 2011 he made a Youtube video where he uses a "|" grapheme which is not documented by Google. This is the kind of thing I circumspection against. "Some guy" making a Youtube doesn't make it a Gmail feature. As for me, information technology would non exist something that I use, fifty-fifty if it worked for him in 2011 and even if it still works today.

6. I don't know what "this STUPID LINE" means.

" |"

Thanks, got it.

That graphic symbol serves many uses, which tin make it confusing. Some know it as the Unix "piping" character for redirecting output to another device or program. People who practice Logic sometimes employ "|" (or occasionally "||") to mean a logical OR. Merely symbols for logic operators are less universal than ordinary arithmetics operators such as "+" and "-" that most everyone knows and understands.

Andy

Jesse C

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Mar 21, 2019, 9:56:53 PM 3/21/19

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Ugh..... Do you want an reply to your questions or not (as to why in that location is confusion) ?

The bespeak: Henry had the solution that worked for me and others (bottom line). Commas do not piece of work (yes I can enter them, just they do not function when filtering by email address - run into my before screenshot for how I entered them). When I entered multiple emails with commas NONE of them were filtered out. When I entered them with OR or "that line" it did work. Nowhere is there an explanation for the format of the emails (except that link you only highlighted for me). What could accept improved my feel drastically would have been an mistake message if the format of my multiple electronic mail addresses list were incorrect..

Henry understood the CONTEXT of the confusion correctly (and what terms users were using to search for help with).. you did not.. You can't seem to echo this user experience. It's working for me now. The instructions are wrong. You lot should change them.. if not.. well I don't really intendance at this point.

- The reason myself (and others) ended upward on that youtube video is considering when we use the Google search engine to look for aid we are redirected to the same pages over and over.. and if they don't give united states of america the context we need to sympathise how to exercise what we want to practice.. we get elsewhere.

What I idea was a simple 1 infinitesimal email cleanup practise became a ii hour job - had I not had fourth dimension I would have given up.. - Y'all can tell past looking at other comments.. and similar stories to mine that others had an feel different from yours too.

Email me ane on 1 if you want more than info..

JessC

On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 5:48:35 PM UTC-4, Andy wrote:

- By default, on from chrome on a desktop, if you use this field (run across screenshot below), enter an email address, and so press enter, information technology adds a comma.. which results in the filter not working at all.

I tried information technology on Chrome on a desktop PC running MS-Windows. Indeed in that location was a comma at first, but:

(a) The comma did not appear in the final Filter.

(b) The filter does work. Why did you say it doesn't?

(c) Even when I purposefully added a comma dorsum and fabricated information technology and so that it "stuck" in the final filter, the filter yet works with the trailing comma.

Why do you call up that the comma prevents the filter from working? My feel is otherwise. If your filter didn't work, the cause was not the comma.

- Whenever you use e-mail (whatsoever email service since the dawn of e-mail) and ship an email to multiple addresses, you separate them with a comma or a semicolon. The example below puts in a comma by default. This is confusing.

If "every e-mail service since the dawn of email" uses a comma, and then why is a comma confusing?

My guess is Gmail adds the comma at the cease, just to make it easier to write or paste some other e-mail address after the first ane, without them condign one long address. It's just a separator. Information technology says, "hither is the end of this address", nothing more than. If you start typing there and yous type before the comma, what y'all type becomes part of the first address (fifty-fifty if information technology makes no sense that way). If yous blazon after the comma, it becomes part of a 2nd accost.

- I've never tried to utilise filters or customize anything in my gmail before. Nowhere in these instructions: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en (to which I was constantly redirected) exercise I see annihilation about how to apply these features.

Perhaps yous should have tried the link that was given earlier in this message thread:

I remember it's more than helpful for the questions you're asking.

Yous're missing the context... (see below)

What am I missing?

Do you mean the fact that in that location are semicolons in that picture? I see them. And? In Gmail, you don't need them because they don't do anything other than separate those addresses. Gmail likewise uses commas and infinite characters every bit separators between things in a list. You could write it like this:

or this:

Gmail might add together or remove extra separating characters equally it sees fit, but information technology does that only to alter the appearance. They don't modify the function.

Andy

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Mar 22, 2019, 8:23:xx AM 3/22/19

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The bespeak: Henry had the solution that worked for me and others (lesser line). Commas do not work (yes I tin can enter them, but they practice not part when filtering by email address - see my earlier screenshot for how I entered them). When I entered multiple emails with commas NONE of them were filtered out. When I entered them with OR or "that line" it did work.

JessC, don't take this the incorrect way, but I think you lot demand to figure out and really understand what information technology is that you wanted to do. I go the sense that y'all oasis't done that all the same. Mayhap you know it deep within, only y'all had not verbalized it.

Commas do work, in the sense that they separate one accost from the next address. That is ALL that they exercise, and all they are supposed to practice. To say that they do not piece of work is to miss the bespeak. They don't perform some sort of relational operation, the way a "/" sign does in arithmetic. If yous expected commas to somehow cause something to happen betwixt those email addresses, and so y'all'd be wrong. I retrieve nobody ever suggested that commas in filters actually DID anything (other than keep things separated).

So what is it that you want to accomplish? Figure that out first.

If yous desire a filter to accept activeness when all "words" that you specify are present in the email message, then but list them. With or without commas. Those "words" could be ordinary English words, or they could be email addresses. Therefore, when I create a filter where the condition looks like any 1 of these lines:

abc mno xyz

abc, mno, xyz

abc; mno; xyz

then that filter "works" (does something) merely when all 3 of "abc", "mno", and "xyz" are there in the email bulletin. All three. If the message has "abc" and "xyz" but doesn't have "mno", and then the filter's requirements have not been met and the filter doesn't act. That's the way information technology is supposed to exist.

Now permit's talk about that when the "words" are electronic mail addresses. If I create a filter that looks similar any ane of these lines:

then that filter does something but when all 3 email addresses are there in the message. If one bulletin has "a...@pqr.com" and another bulletin has "ten...@vwx.edu", nothing's going to happen considering they are not in the same bulletin, and neither bulletin has all three.

Are we OK and so far?

Now, the question is, what is it that you WANT to do? Are you trying to brand a filter that does something when Whatsoever Ane of those words (or addresses) is at that place? If so, that is totally unlike. In one case the filter needs ALL of the items to be in that location before the filter acts. In the other case, the filter acts if just one of the items is in that location.

That is the fundamental divergence between a "logical AND", and a "logical OR". Yous need to figure out which type you want to use, so make your filter appropriately. Gmail can non read your mind. If you wanted a "logical OR" but you lot made the filter as a "logical AND", then it volition not practise what you wanted.

When describing it, information technology is not sufficient to say that you lot desire a filter that works with a listing of addresses -- because yous haven't actually said what to do with those addresses. Y'all need to specify! Saying "a listing of addresses" and nothing more is saying but one-half the story. It's like giving a cooking recipe as a list of ingredients, without maxim what to practice with those ingredients.

If you lot want your filter to practice something whenever any i of the listed things (words, addresses) is nowadays, then what you want is a "logical OR". Perhaps you want the filter to practice something when address 1 or address 2 or address 3 ... is present. And then, you have to write (or code) the filter that way. Do that by writing:

or, if you prefer the other format, apply this:

(Take your pick; either of them ought to work.) If you don't utilize either of these -- if you omit the "OR"'due south and omit the {curly braces} -- or the undocumented "|" alternative -- and so your filter is going to await all three e-mail addresses to exist in a message, earlier it does something. That'southward because you wrote it as a "logical AND", which requires ALL the listed addresses to be there. (And that is a legitimate matter to practise also. I have filters like that.)

Commas don't change this. Never did. Every bit far as I know, nobody always suggested that they practise -- except that you seem to be sticking to the idea that commas should have done something.

...When I entered multiple emails with commas NONE of them were filtered out. ...

"Filtered out"? What exercise you lot mean past that?

Gmail's filters get out messages intact; they exercise non "filter out" addresses or anything else from within the message. What filters do, is determine which letters to human activity on in some manner. (But we haven't even talked most what the filter actually does, when the conditions are met.)

... What could have improved my experience drastically would have been an fault message if the format of my multiple email addresses list were incorrect..

The format of your filter was not incorrect, and then there tin exist no error message. Its syntax was OK. It but didn't exercise what you wanted. This is why I say you first need to figure out what you want, before you write some code to implement it.

This is like expecting an automobile to plow towards the left when y'all plow the cycle clockwise simply actually wanted to go left. Turning right is a perfectly acceptable thing to do; it but wasn't the action y'all wanted. The car tin can't give you an fault message because turning the bicycle right was OK, even if not what you really wanted.

I retrieve it's of import for you to fully sympathize the difference between OR and AND. Both are equally correct, simply in different situations.

Fortunately, "logical OR" and "logical AND" hateful pretty much the aforementioned thing as OR and AND in conversational English. Fifty-fifty in cooking there is a big deviation. If a recipe says to use "i tbsp of olive oil or 1/four cup of butter", that ways something very dissimilar from "1 tbsp of olive oil and 1/four cup of butter", or if the recipe listed the ingredients this way:

...

1 tbsp olive oil

1/4 cup butter

...

Unless the recipe has the give-and-take "or" in there somewhere, cooks know to translate a list of ingredients equally meaning that all of them will be used.

Regards,

Andy

Zack (Doc)

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Mar 27, 2019, 6:32:53 AM 3/27/19

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Andy,

Usually I would agree with you, simply for cases like Jesse's, I'd say they could go a little further.

Specifically, you betoken out that Gmail tin can't read your heed and know what you want, and that's true, but as you lot tin can run across from Jesse's one screen shot, at that place is an opportunity to make a pretty good stab at information technology.

The filter they were typing was specifically the "FROM" east-post addresses. Since a unmarried bulletin can never exist from Ii addresses, a filter based on this field containing more than i entry, MUST exist a logical OR. All of the other fields you might want an AND, or an OR, merely FROM can just always comport one value, so a search for multiples is either for OR, or would be fruitless (like Jesse's filter didn't match cause information technology wound up beingness "FROM" two or more than eastward-mail addresses, an impossibility)

Jesse,

To exist articulate, realise that this grouping is "GMail Power *USERS* Group"... We are users like yourself, non Google themselves. There's a possibility that Google employees might read it, but it's not an official Google Forum, and they make no point of making themselves known.

Richard Atlas

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I've been trying dissimilar combinations with and without operators to see how gmail interprets them.

Information technology seems than when simply searching for words, a space is interpreted as OR .

When the search includes a category (from:, to:, label:, etc.) then ALL spaces are interpreted as AND .

Not expressed justimplied:

Equally typed:blue car

Interpreted:blueOR motorcar

Interpreted:FROM : mybank .comAND account

Equally typed: FROM: mybank.comaccount zelle

Interpreted: FROM : mybank.com AND business relationshipAND zelle

This shows emails from both banks:

If you don't desire the unsaid operator to exist used, you must specify the operator (in CAPS)