How do I filter for unknown people in addition to the ones i know?

[Pulkit Singhal]

Greetings!

I have had conversations where folks from my internal team were involved and sometimes clients too.

For ex:
- convo#1
    - myPeeps1
    - myPeeps2
    - client1
- convo#2
    - myPeeps1
    - myPeeps2

I want to write a filter where given the two conversations, convo#2 gets filtered out and only convo#1 shows up as a result.

Is this possible?

How do I tell gmail that I want it to look for "unknowns" and keep those threads?

But ignore the thread if the conversations only consist of the known people.

Thanks a bunch!

- Pulkit

[Andy]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Pulkit Singhal <pulkit...@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings!

I have had conversations where folks from my internal team were involved and sometimes clients too.

For ex:
- convo#1
    - myPeeps1
    - myPeeps2
    - client1
- convo#2
    - myPeeps1
    - myPeeps2

I want to write a filter where given the two conversations, convo#2 gets filtered out and only convo#1 shows up as a result.

Is this possible?

​Maybe.  Well, not entirely.

If you have a filter that looks for this:

  -From:(myPeeps1 OR myPeeps2 OR myPeeps3 ...)

and it lists everyone in your internal team​, then that filter should find any conversation that includes a message sent from anyone else.  (Gmail filters that match any message in a conversation, display the whole conversation.)

The tricky thing is filtering on the To: addresses, to find conversations where a message was sent to a client, but never from them.  I don't see a way to do that, without having to enumerate every possible client.  But maybe it is sufficient to find only those conversations where one of the messages was sent to you from a client.

Haven't tested it, so not sure if it works.

Andy