On gmail, is there a way to create a label or filter that automatically applies to any email from any gmail contact (w/o entering manually)?
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will apply a label with "a single filter". You just need to "specify the criteria you'd like to use for determining what to do with a message as it arrives".
Once you logon to your gmail account,
- click "Settings" on top of the browser and then
- click on "Filters"
- click on "Create a new filter"
- fill the appropriate search criteria
(you can click on Test search to see the results based on already received msgs)
- click on "next step"
- choose the approriate action
- click on "Create filter"
You can also choose to apply the fitler you just created to the search results by checking the box next to "Create filter"
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Here is an update:
I understand you want to create a white list of all you contacts and label them.
I did test this method and it works fine. You can use to make a whitelist and label them.
It has a step by step procedure to create a filter using your contacts and simple java script tool to convert your multiple addresses to the required format to use in the "From" field for creating a filter.
"If you want to add more addresses, edit the filter by appending " OR newaddress1 OR newaddress2 ... OR newaddressN" in the From field.
Note that if you only want one or two address, you can create just the filter described above, by adding the address in the From field. If you want to block many addresses, it's time consuming to do this manually by copying each email address from the contact list."
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/create-email-blacklist-in-gmail.html
Please check and post a reply if it works for you.
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M$Go to Settings then Filters.
Click on "Create a new filter".
Enter the From email and the label you want it to apply.
Press "Test Search" and see the emails that will be selected.
When that looks okay, press "Next Step".
Check "Apply the label" and either choose the label or select "new label" and enter the name of the label you want.
If you want the label to be applied to all the old messages which were selected by the filter (all that person's messages that you already have), check "Also apply filter to .... conversations below"
Press "Create Filter" and you're done!
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No -- the question probably wasn't clear. I want ONE filter or label that automatically applies to ANY email FROM any of my contact list (OVER 1000). Don't want to do individual filters for each contact, etc. So, for instance, any email from any contact gets labeled "from verified contact"
1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. At the top right corner of your Gmail inbox, click Settings.
3. Under Settings, click Filters.
4. Click Create a new filter.
Your question says you wanted to create a filter for e-mails from a Gmail contact.
5. At the Create a Filter dialog, enter "@gmail.com" at the "From:" field.
6. Go to the next step.
7. Decide what to do with the filtered e-mails. From here you can apply a label to them, forward them and so on.
8. By default, the filter is applied to new mail you receive. You can apply the filter to e-mails that are already in your Gmail account. Juct check "Also apply filter to conversations below".
9. Click Create Filter and you're done!
Hope this answers your question.
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But wouldn't this just create a filter that would find any emails from anyone @gmail.com? How would this find only MY contacts in gmail?
Oh, I finally see what you are trying to do. This is a bit more complicated, and requires a bit of manual work:
1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. On the left panel click Contacts.
3. Select all of your contacts by clicking All.
4. Once done, click Email on the right panel.
5. A message will be ready to be composed. Do not send. Just copy and paste everything in the "To:" field. It contains all the addresses of your Contacts.
6. Go to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/create-email-blacklist-in-gmail.html
7. Paste the "To:" contents into the text field.
8. Click Convert. All of the addresses would be converted into the format to be used in the criteria.
9. Before pasting in the "From:" criteria, add brackets to the converted data. After that, append @gmail.com to the back of it. You should get something like this (though much longer):
(person1@yahoo.com OR person2@gmail.com OR person3@hotmail.com OR person4@gmail.com) @gmail.com
10. Continue to step 5 above. Paste the criteria you have modified.
Tip: Use Notepad if you have trouble modifying the criteria in the small text field.
I'm not sure this works with 1000 contacts because of the limits set in Gmail. If that is the case, then you would have to do so in batches. This would add all your existing contacts to the filter. New contacts would have to be added manually though. Keep me posted whether you suceed or not.
P.S.: I got the idea from stanar.
With filters, you can filter on things like
- email addresses eg all those who have "gmail.com" or "funny.guy@gmail.com" and some variations of this type
- more broadly, strings or words in the header (from / to / cc / subject) or in the body
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Click NEXT STEP and APPLY the LABEL (pick one)
Then hit CREATE FILTER.
Done!!!
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I got what you are saying now. It is similar to the filter option "people or distribution list " in Outlook. I did explore the filter and label options for mails and contacts on gmail, I couldnt find anything useful for now. If I find any , will post it here. Pls check if this helps.
http://ask.metafilter.com/72206/Creating-a-GMail-filter-based-on-contacts
Pls read the update below
No -- please see my comment above -- not sure what "search criteria" one would enter to encompass all contacts
The link to create a blacklist will work so I labeled your answer above as helpful since I can't isolate a specific comment as the right answer. Good job!
Thanks @silverhammer . I got so excited when I saw this question, because I hate the way gmail groups conversations and lacks the white list feature. So I started exploring filter and lable options, I tried with comma, semicolon and lower case "or" and nothing worked. After googling seriously and I found that "OR" works using that link.
Here is an update: I think I found the solution.
I understand you want to create a white list of all you contacts and label them.
I did test this method and it works fine. You can use to make a whitelist and label them. If you have multiple groups of those 1000 contacts, you can still use this method, use the same label.
It has a step by step procedure to create a filter using your contacts and simple java script tool to convert your multiple addresses to the required format to use in the "From" field for creating a filter.
"If you want to add more addresses, edit the filter by appending " OR newaddress1 OR newaddress2 ... OR newaddressN" in the From field.
Note that if you only want one or two address, you can create just the filter described above, by adding the address in the From field. If you want to block many addresses, it's time consuming to do this manually by copying each email address from the contact list."
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/create-email-blacklist-in-gmail.html
If you dont want to copy and paste your contacts to that online tool, you can do this manually use "find&replace" to include OR in betwee the email id.
Please check for a couple of addresses and post a reply if it works for you.
@ryoshioka can you explain why you marked my answer "unhelpful"?
Did you read the whole answer including the update?
someone has already requested this feature
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=607e9fb5a15662fd&hl=en