Gmail search using exact search string

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Doing a search via regular Gmail frontend in the browser, shows strange results.

I want to search all mails from

*@ebay.*

My search:

from:@ebay

shows also emails sent from an ebay subdomain:

eBay@reply.ebay.com

It seems like Gmail ignores the "@", otherwise I can't see why those messages appear in the search results.

I also tried following searches with no success:

from:"@ebay"
from:'@ebay'
from:(@ebay)
from:("@ebay")
from:('@ebay')

Best Answer

Use this:

from:ebay.* -from:members.ebay.de

Basically you're telling it to search on emails from ebay.* but NOT from that subdomain on that domain.