You can use search operators to create filters in Gmail. This makes Gmail filters so much more powerful.
I don’t understand why Google tries to hide this feature. It’s not obvious that you can use search operators on the “Create a filter” form, and they don’t even mention it on the filter creation help page.
I thought Google was smart. Why don’t they at least link to the search operators help page on the filter creation form?
Advanced search operators you can use to create filters include: quotes, hyphen for negative, OR, and parentheses. There’s no AND operator though.
For example:
Filter email addressed to blackhole@example.com except if it comes from joe@vipclient.com. Note the hyphen in front of “joe”.
- FROM: -joe@vipclient.com
- TO: blackhole@example.com
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