10 Simple Reasons Why GMail Filters Suck

Here are a simple reason why this design blows.

All these freaking ads … what are content and what are spam on this site … can’t tell.

mvh

I’ve tried searching on a non-standard header by entering the “X-Non-Standard-Header: some string” in ‘Has the words’. It didn’t work for me at all.

Wow. You’re an idiot.

I am completely agree with all these 10 features for why gmai filters are worst as compare to others but other services of google is better than this filters.

FYI and for future web searchers, you can do 9 of these 10 things easily (I’ve never wanted to name a filter personally, since it’s more obvious what it is from what it is):

* filter on any folders, only incoming emails can be filtered
- Just click “apply to conversations below”

* exclude terms from From, To of Subject field.
-Simply enter terms in the “Doesn’t have” field

* filter on cc or bcc which are pretty standard fields
-Why would you want to filter cc without from or from without cc? If so just use the CC tag in the from field!

* filter on any non-standard header fields
-Have you tried? You might be surprised!

* filter based on attachments (presence) or their size, even GMail Search boasts of “Has Attachment” capability
-Just click “has attachment” (although not by size afaik)

* filter based on multiple criteria like say has x in subject or y in subject
-Just put X | Y or if you prefer (X OR Y)

* create complex queries of any form
-Actually, as complex as any logic with multiple terms using AND, OR or NOT!

* auto-reply based on filter match
-Just setup a filter forwarding to your autoreply address…

* mark as spam based on filter match
-You can filter to trash, in fact I’ve seen an online tip to do that with everything in the spam folder instead of saving it.

Gmail sucks ass, the filters don’t even work, if they want to help with spam it should at least auto input the subject, this has a better chance then the from since the emails are not real emails they are fake and always changing What was google thinking ? Or smoking

Btw, you could do no.4 (autoreply) by auto-forwarding the incoming gmail to an email address you run, and autoreplying to that one. I do this for one support oriented website but the mail is forwarded to a PHP program, which tracks incoming very diligently before sending auto-response.

exclude terms from From, To of Subject field

Try the NOT operator

filter on cc or bcc which are pretty standard fields

Try using “bcc:ex@gmail.com” or “cc:ex1@gmail.com” in the “Has the words”-field

filter based on multiple criteria like say has x in subject or y in subject

Try “x | y”