Gmail – How to separate out Gmail email from addresses in contact list

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I get very little spam email – Gmail handles this wonderfully well. However, I get a lot of mail that isn't spam but things like notifications from mailing lists and mail order workflow stuff. This is probably over 90% of my mail.

Does Gmail have a way of creating filters based on whether the email address is in your contact list or not?

Best Answer

GMail doesn't filter based on presence in the contact list but it provides incredible filtering options based on combinations of specific fields (e.g. you want to separate Amazon order notifications from their marketing emails).

Here's what I have as my "Notifications" label filter:

(from:facebookmail.com OR from:linkedin.com OR from:foursquare.com OR from:postmaster.twitter.com OR from:info@meetup.com OR from:friendfeed.com OR from:calendar-notification@google.com OR from:noreply OR from:no-reply-contacts@flickr.com OR to:meetup.com OR from:do-not-reply) -{subject:buzz OR from:nokia.com OR from:googlegroups.com OR from:groups.yahoo.com OR subject:"google alert"}

First, I define the senders that I want to be filtered, then I add exceptions, such as mailing lists and Google Alerts that are filtered separately.

To start creating a filter click the down arrow on the left of GMail's search box. Then enter the query into Has the words or Doesn't have fields and click Create filter with this search. In the next screen, you'll have a number of options for actions to be taken - choose whatever you need.

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