Gmail Filter on Partial Words

gmailgmail-filters

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|ird.govt|mybank|contact)
Do this: Never send it to Spam

As you can see, to keep it short and more generalised (not too generalised so far), I have not listed entire email addresses.

So far the above rule seems to be working for everything listed except "mybank", which still allows emails from "office@mybanksavings.co.nz" to go into spam.

Is this because the filter doesn't match on partial "words" (alphanumeric strings?), or what?

I had a quick look here, but it didn't seem to go into sufficient detail:
  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en
So if you know of a link to support whatever you say, that could also help.

Best Answer

Gmail search doesn't support wildcards, partial words, or regular expressions. By extension, then, neither do Gmail filters. (Some information from Google Support.)

@example.com will work because @ is a word separator. But @example will match @example.com but not @examplexyz.

Some related questions here:

Related Topic