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 basically always the same even if I have a specific filter for 3 known error cases, the label is applied to the conversation, instead of the specific message.
Therefore, all the errors get all the filters. I do not yet want to delete the errors, but would rather file them separately.
I have not yet used the NOT contains string yet, but that looks to be non-scalable as I get to the fourth or fifth error case I am done with handling.
Is there any option other than turning off Conversations for all my email? (I guess I could use one of my spare accounts to turn off conversations and do the work there but would be nice to have such an option).
Best Answer
I had a similar problem, the only way around it was to... first disable THREAD views, which you can do in Gmail > Settings > Conversation View => Turn off. After you do that you can search/create filters that will be applied to single emails and not threads.