Gmail – How to add new label to Gmail based on previous labels + specific string

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I'm trying to configure some automation when it comes to labeling my Gmail mailbox.
Currently, I want to apply label "X" to every new message that match the specific string "abc" and DON'T have label "Y".

The problem I'm facing is that whenever someone responds to old thread with label "Y", the filter is being triggered and this mail have to labels "X" and "Y".

TLDR: I don't want to label threads with specific label, but it is not working.

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In Gmail, labels can be nested, so organized in a tree structure: As labels prepared in advance, as rather static objects, manually.
If I understand you correctly:
- you want the dynamic creation of new labels? ..based on the data from the incoming emails?
- And even more: In the same moment a new filter-instance to be created for the dynamic-labels, so the new-data emails to be labeled by their respective labels. Probably to define not a "static filter", but rather a filter template, with placeholders, for parsed values? ..i.e. via filter-template-regEx?

There is no such feature in Gmail, AFAIK.

I can imagine such feature, i.e. for notification emails from a ticketing systems like Jira or eBay... But I have never heard about such feature in Gmail. Not for/in any mail client at all.

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Gmail – Filtering based on multiple labels in Gmail

You have two choices:

label:AJ-Label-1 label:AJ-Label-2
label:AJ-Label-1 OR label:AJ-Label-2

The first option will perform an AND search, meaning the email must have both labels applied to it. The second option performs an OR search which will match if any of the labels are applied to a message.

The fact that both start with AJ unfortunately doesn't help since labels can't be searched via stemming. You must list both of them explicitly in your query.

Tip: To make it easier to create queries, you should use the search box in Gmail which provides code completion, and then copy and paste the query into the Multiple Inboxes settings.

Note: If your labels contain spaces, replace the space with the - character.

Gmail – Automatic Labels Based on Sender

Sure. You need to create a filter.

Matches: from:(bob@example.com)
Do this: Apply label "CLIENT"

Matches: to:(my-alternate-email@example.net)
Do this: Apply label "non-work related"

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