How to add a group to a filter

[Thomas Uyttendaele]

Hello,

I'm trying to bring more structure into my mails from gmail.
I want to create a filter for a group but it seems to not work.

Has anybody a solution for this?

Thomas

[Zack (Doc)]

Depends on exactly what you mean by Group, but I'll assume you mean
like this one, a mailing-list/group.

You can filter either by to/from depending on how the group presents
itself, or even list-id if the list properly supports it (like this
one does).

Click "show details" on the message and look for "Filter messages from
this mailing list", further there's the "Filter messages like this"
from the Reply drop-down box.

[Rodrigo]

Hi,

i do not know if it is what you mean, anyway i would like to know
whether there is how to control the multiple filter criteria, because it
seems they are joined through "or" logical operator, while we may
need "and".

regards, rodrigo

[Andrew Ingraham]

> i do not know if it is what you mean, anyway i would like to know
> whether there is how to control the multiple filter criteria, because it
> seems they are joined through "or" logical operator, while we may
> need "and".

In my experience with Gmail filters, when you list multiple items in a
search field, the default is that all criteria must be satisfied, i.e.,
"and". When I needed a logical "or", I need to specify it (using uppercase
"OR").

Gmail help has a page on filter operators that gives brief details.

Andy

[Sean Murphy]

    That fits my experience as well.

[Zack (Doc)]

Another option is to enclose terms in parens or brackets. parens "()"
AND the terms and brackets "{}" OR them.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:21, Andrew Ingraham
<andrew....@gmail.com> wrote:
>

--
William James - "As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories
for which we have no use."

[Troy Davisson]

I believe by "Group" he's referring to a Contacts group. You can
select multiple Contacts in your list and assign them to a group (very
much like labels but for contacts). From there, he'd like to (and I
would as well) like to make a filter which is applied to any emails
that are From: anyone in that contacts group.

On Jun 8, 9:31 am, "Zack (Doc)" <z...@tnan.net> wrote:
> Depends on exactly what you mean by Group, but I'll assume you mean
> like this one, a mailing-list/group.
>
> You can filter either by to/from depending on how the group presents
> itself, or even list-id if the list properly supports it (like this
> one does).
>
> Click "show details" on the message and look for "Filter messages from
> this mailing list", further there's the "Filter messages like this"
> from the Reply drop-down box.
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 08:53, Thomas Uyttendaele
>

[Zack (Doc)]

Nope.  At this point you cannot create filters with a contact group.

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:11 PM, <rs...@steinerhealth.org> wrote:

This is exactly what I need to do! Has anyone found a way?

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[George Savery]

could you create a google + circle that mimics the same members of your contacts group, then you can use the filter, circle:work   (work being the name of the circle)

Regards
     George 

[Zack (Doc)]

I did not know you could search by Circle... that looks like that might actually work.

[Mircea Visescu]

On Friday, September 13, 2013 3:24:12 PM UTC+3, Zack Tennant wrote:

I did not know you could search by Circle... that looks like that might actually work.

I found something interesting that works with this particular problem. In order to work you must enter the list of contacts with "OR" between them (" OR newaddress1 OR newaddress2 ... OR newaddressN")

 

[Doug Bell]

On Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 10:01:10 PM UTC-7, Zack Tennant wrote:

Nope.  At this point you cannot create filters with a contact group.

Is this still true in April 2015?  I mean, surely this is one of the reasons to create a group in the first place...

[Zack (Doc)]

Did you try before asking the question?  I did before answering, and confirmed that when I tried to add a group to the from:filter, it expanded it to the constituent members.  So, yes, it appears to still be true in April 2015.

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[Doug Bell]

I did try, but that doesn't mean I'm not missing something.  There might be a syntax I'm missing.

Another thing I tried to do was to select several people in my contacts to add them all to a circle, but can't do that either.  But then, Goggle+ was so poorly done that nobody really uses it, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

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[Guiding Hand]

I am having the exact same issue. Anyone have a fix that's working for them as of yet?

[אלירם אלגרבלי‎]

I have been waiting for that feature since I started to use Gmail in 2006. It is so obvious.

[Johannes L.]

Filter from: 

Per...@email.com OR per...@email.com OR per...@email.com

That does work - the OR has to be in capital letters - it will not work with "or"

[Yatin Rao]

Rather than OR, you can add a whole bunch of addresses separated by spaces, and enclose the whole thing in curly braces

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gmail-power-users/eSxF3VYB1Fk/jgK_K_AzTuYJ

The auto-expansion of a group might not work, unless it's dynamically updated? e.g. what if I add a new member to the group after creating the filter?

Cheers.

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[Andy]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Yatin Rao <why...@gmail.com> wrote:

The auto-expansion of a group might not work, unless it's dynamically updated? e.g. what if I add a new member to the group after creating the filter?

​As far as I can tell, the Filter doesn't know that the list of addresses came from a contact group.​  So when you change the contact group, the filter stays the same as before.

Andy

[sixten abbot]

SO TRUE. Here’s the thing: In an advanced search, it seems like I can add a group, e.g. 'My Google Group'. Search automatically changes it to individual members, formatted like this -- 'to:("John Doe" <jd...@gmail.com>, "Jane Roe" <jan...@yahoo.com>, ....)' -- (without the single quotes) and then it returns ZERO results.

Seriously?

Why does gmail fail at this?

[Andy]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:26 PM, sixten abbot <sca...@gmail.com> wrote:

SO TRUE. Here’s the thing: In an advanced search, it seems like I can add a group, e.g. 'My Google Group'. Search automatically changes it to individual members, formatted like this -- 'to:("John Doe" <jd...@gmail.com>, "Jane Roe" <jan...@yahoo.com>, ....)' -- (without the single quotes) and then it returns ZERO results.

​As you may know, it returns no results because, when formatted like that, it looks for a sender's address that matches ALL of the listed addresses.  Not possible.

It should have used OR (capitalized) between each of the addresses.  Or, {curly braces} around the whole thing.

I have not used contact groups when trying to make a Filter or do a Search, so I​ haven't seen this happen myself.

Andy

[sixten abbot]

Yeah, that’s why I wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t ME who did the formatting!  :-)

But -- thank you SO MUCH -- simply (manually) adding the curly braces around the (auto-converted) addresses solves the issue perfectly.

Still far short of ideal UX.