No, there is no way to do this.
But, you can use filter import/export feature in Gmail to clone a rule then change the applied label.
- Create your filter
- Go to Settings > Filters
- Check the checkbox next to your new filter
- Click
Export at the bottom, this will create an xml file called mailFilters.xml
- You should have a file that looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>`
<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:apps='http://schemas.google.com/apps/2006'>
<title>Mail Filters</title>
<id>tag:mail.google.com,2008:filters:11344473557977</id>
<updated>2010-07-14T20:24:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Smith</name>
<email>test@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<entry>
<category term='filter'></category>
<title>Mail Filter</title>
<id>tag:mail.google.com,2008:filter:1131773557977</id>
<updated>2010-07-14T20:24:10Z</updated>
<content></content>
<apps:property name='from' value='foo@example.com'/>
<apps:property name='label' value='the_label'/>
</entry>
</feed>
All you need to do is to carefully edit this XML file in an editor which can intelligently handle plaintext.
Copy the code from <entry> and paste it in immediately after the first one. I removed the <id> and <updated> sections and they still worked, so much of the stuff in there is optional. Copy and paste a few more times, and you've got the result you want.
This worked for me:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:apps='http://schemas.google.com/apps/2006'>
<title>Mail Filters</title>
<id>tag:mail.google.com,2008:filters:11344473557977</id>
<updated>2010-07-14T20:24:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Smith</name>
<email>test@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<entry>
<category term='filter'></category>
<title>Mail Filter</title>
<id>tag:mail.google.com,2008:filter:1131773557977</id>
<updated>2010-07-14T20:24:10Z</updated>
<content></content>
<apps:property name='from' value='foo@example.com'/>
<apps:property name='label' value='the_label'/>
</entry>
<entry>
<category term='filter'></category>
<title>Mail Filter</title>
<content></content>
<apps:property name='from' value='bar@example.com'/>
<apps:property name='label' value='another_label'/>
</entry>
</feed>
Save your file then click Import filters on the same Settings > Filters page and you will have the option of which of the contained filters you want to add.
I don't think Google supports this feature, but I found a workaround from 2008 that might still work:
- Create the group in My Contacts
- Compose an email to said group
- Copy the "To:" field
- Paste into the "Convert" textbox here
- Copy the the "Convert" output into a new filter
Try it and let us know if it does what you're looking for.
Best Answer
If you delete a label that was being applied in a filter, the specific action of applying that label will simply disappear from the filter. So if the filter only applied that label and the label is deleted, the filter will still exist but do nothing.
As filters can have more than one action, the other actions, if any, will still be executed when emails with matching conditions arrive.
So the email will still arrive and end up in the Inbox, unless one or more rules move it away from the Inbox.
If the original rule applied the specific label and then archived the email, the email will still end up in the "All Mail" folder after the specific label was deleted.