I use filters to organise emails into 'folders'. eg all emails to/from my children go into my 'Children' folder.
I use a filter to add a 'Children' label to outgoing emails to them and a separate filter to add the 'Children' label to any received emails from them so that any email I send to them or they send to me all finish up in the same folder.
Does anyone know how to combine these two actions into one filter?
Currently I have two filters every time I send/receive emails that I need to put into the same folder, eg to/from specific companies, forums, etc. etc.?
Gmail – How to Combine Two Filter Actions
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Two huge "secrets" to designing any truly powerful Google search are parenthesis () and curly brackets {}. Anything that is wrapped in parenthesis will do the same thing as searching with the terms using the AND operator. For example (pie cherry) will search for results that contain BOTH pie AND cherry. On the other side of things using curly brackets will give your results using the OR operator. For example {black white} will search for results that contain EITHER black OR white OR BOTH black and white
Within Gmail you can simple type the search into your search bar and then click the arrow at the right of the box which should expand to give you other options to narrow the search. Disregard the body of the expanded box and look at the bottom right corner and click on the "Create filter with this search" link.
So I would try to put in (subject:(EduTester) fail) for your search and then create the filter from this.
Sample expanded search box:
Just got this to work by creating both filters in the From field. The following are the searches applied (note: I'm not sure whether or not you were using quotation marks in your filters before, but I did not)
Label A (for the specific email address at the domain)
from:(name@domain.com)Label B (all emails from the domain other than the specific email address)
from:(domain.com -name)
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I do something similar with my own kids, although I have labels for each of them.
You should be able to do something like this:
Note that
ORneeds to be in all-caps for it to be recognized properly.You can string several of these together like so:
There's a lot of space, but not an infinite amount, so I don't know how many times you can do that. I generally prefer not to do that.