I belong to a Github organization and am being overwhelmed by notifications sent to the various repos in that org. I have a team of people whose notifications I do need to see; I'd like to filter out every other message.
These notifications have from fields such as:
Guy DeFalt <notifications@github.com>
SomeGithubUsername <notifications@github.com>
Grace Hopper <notifications@github.com>
Ideally, I'd like to auto-archive anything matching a GMail filter like:
-{"Guy DeFalt" OR "SomeGithubUsername" OR "Grace Hopper"} AND from:notifications@github.com
However, this doesn't work: notifications that include, say, Grace Hopper are still being filtered out. How do you filter out all messages from a specific email address except those of particular, specific people?
Best Answer
You can setup the filter for the FROM address field to reflect both a person's display name and email address as follows:
Additionally, if you want just one filter for multiple email addresses you can use a logical OR between parentheses wrapped name/email pairs
For your example use case, you'd set up the filter's From field as:
You can use the SEARCH button to test the filter before applying/saving it.