So there's no chance of infecting your computer simply by opening the message. If it's in Spam, Gmail doesn't load the graphics files which can send your address back to the sender. So I think it might be OK to open a message as long as you don't try clicking on any links -- and again, if it's in Spam already, Gmail doesn't show you any of the links so you can't click on them anyway! With the message open, you can see the headers, even open the original message which is just text so it's harmless.
Gmail shows the links in Spam Vew, but they are not clickable. Can't even use "Unshorten" from the context menu on the links, until they are declared "Not Spam. So Gmail makes examining the spam very safe as well as somewhat easy while it is labeled as "Spam". Glad to know that spam folder gmail is sanitized against accidental mail opening. Thanks Andy for the valuable input. Is there 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 email filter?
To post to this group, send email to gmail-po To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to gmail-power-us 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 get nothing. Unless I am missing something, the only two ways I know to see what they are, is to either mark them "Not Spam" ugh!
So I usually have to take Gmail's word that the message really is Spam and that I don't want to know. I'm mostly guessing here, but there might be a limit on how many characters you can have, not how many "OR" operators you can use.
Or that you reach the first limit before the second. I've had filters with more than a dozen "OR" operators. Regardless, if there is a limit, I think you'll know it when it happens. Which is my way of saying, why bother asking? If you reach it, you reach it, and then deal with it. Jesse C. Thank-YOU Henry. Commas wouldn't work.. Maybe it's just me, but I don't understand the confusion.
The filter acts only if all of them are true. It's as if the word "AND" separates each one. In Gmail, the "AND" is implied. It has always been this way well, since it has. If you want a Gmail filter to do something whenever one out of several things are met, but not necessarily all, you must use "OR" between them.
It has always been this way well, since , and it is well documented. Note that "or" is not the same as "OR". Also true for a very long time, also documented. These three are equivalent:. 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. I have never seen " " as an allowed operator in Gmail.
That's not to say that it doesn't do anything, but I do not recall seeing it in Google's documentation so I wouldn't trust that it does something. If it does anything, I guess it would likely mean the same thing as "OR", and we have the keyword "OR" to do that.
Therefore: Use "OR", don't use " ". Hopefully most people who want to make complex Gmail filters have an understanding of Logic already. I guess there's a lot of untrustworthy information that people have written about Gmail. Don't believe what anyone other than Google writes about it. It seems people keep trying to make believe that Gmail works differently than it does.
Writing that it does something, doesn't make it true. Hi Andy,. See my additional info below. The example below puts in a comma by default. This is confusing. You're missing the context Here is the youtube video mentioned which people were saying solved their issue :.
This was the first documentation I could find.. The solution in the video did work. I only created filters in the first place on advice from an email I got from Google.
I hope you can see the source of confusion. I had no idea how to list multiple emails in an email 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, can you understand the confusion? Basically if you look in the bottom of one of the screenshots you can see it I want to have all my bills go to one label and skip the inbox.
It wasn't easy to do this with keywords, so I did it by email instead. I did eventually figure it out.. Thanks for following up. Hope this helps. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-power-us This is what is confusing. I've never set up a filter before..
If a particular website seems to be spamming you, or if one client is more important than all your others, you can take greater control of their incoming messages and sort them automatically. These ideas are just the tip of the iceberg. Use these as a template and modify your own custom Gmail filters, or create some entirely from scratch.
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Sign up for a free trial today and see what EmailAnalytics can do for you! In , he founded a marketing agency that appeared on the Inc. Helps to keep the inbox clear, while minimising the risk of deleting something important. Request: Is there any way to use a filter or filters to apply more than one label? The only way I know is to create multiple filters on the same email. Each filter label is a separate and unique action or entry.
That would require two filters labels , one for each folder the email is stored under. Make sense? I want to put on in an email infrom of a certain street address so that all incoming emails about that address with be diverted to a certain label. Thank for your article. When filtering emails from a specific email is there a way to filter emails from similar email addresses?
Do I have to list all of the emails in the from filter? I hope this make sense. Works great. But, I constantly have new email sources that I want to add to this. The fewer filters you have, the easier it is to manage and edit them when you need to. If you change accounts or someone else loves your filters, you can import and export filters. You can export filters one at a time so you only share the filters you want instead of all filters at once. Exporting your favorite filters is an ideal backup method should anything happen to your account.
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Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Is this a good approach to label mail from a lot of sources? Is there a limit to how many items can be in my "OR" list? Is there a performance tradeoff between one OR filter and lots of single filters? I would not worry about performance since it won't significantly affect your experience in Gmail, especially since this only gets applied to incoming emails.
I think in this case it is a matter of personal preference. If you really want to have everything wrapped in one filter, then your approach is fine. For example, if the word "rentals" is too generic and false positives start getting labeled, you'd have to edit that long filter text. If you had a separate filter for each keyword, you could simply edit or delete one filter.
Also, if you add a lot more keywords to filter by, it might be easier to just add them as separate filters rather than deal with squeezing more characters into one long filter list.
I don't see any harm in labeling mail from a lot of sources. It all comes down to how precise your filter is and whether the keywords affect only those emails you want and none other. In the end the filters are meant to help you organize your email, and that's exactly what you're using them to do. I have some conditions in Gmail with over a dozen "from" addresses OR'd together and they work fine. I presume that the work going on in the Gmail server is similar, whether the from addresses are in one filter or in one filter each, though I don't work at Google and haven't seen the Gmail code.
However, I would note that once the list gets rather long, it is easier to have an editing error in the condition that goes unnoticed and breaks the filter. I thought it might be from too many ORs, but when I copied the condition out to a text editor to split it into two conditions I discovered that one of the email addresses had gone from.
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