http://www.samirvyas.com/blog/2010/12/09/why-gmail-filters-are-still-inadequate/ Don't learn to hack, hack to learn Sun, 20 May 2012 18:19:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.samirvyas.com/blog/2010/12/09/why-gmail-filters-are-still-inadequate/#comment-94 Ken Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:57:18 +0000 http://www.samirvyas.com/blog/2010/12/09/why-gmail-filters-are-still-inadequate/#comment-94 I second the motion. Gmail filters are incredibly lame given the vast engineering power of this company. I want to create filters that show messages that require me to do something, finding those emails in a vast sea of emails. So, all I want is to be able to create a filter that filters gmails that are only to my email and not to anybody else. Cannot be done easily, if at all. Second, I want to find emails that have "Ken," in the body of the email. Gmail ignores the comma. I have to think that either Google engineers don't use gmail because they certainly couldn't live with their lame filter functionality or that they have some secret gmail filter commands that we mere mortals are not trusted with. As far as gmail filters go, and as far as gmail engineer ability goes, the emperor definitely has no clothes. I second the motion. Gmail filters are incredibly lame given the vast engineering power of this company. I want to create filters that show messages that require me to do something, finding those emails in a vast sea of emails. So, all I want is to be able to create a filter that filters gmails that are only to my email and not to anybody else. Cannot be done easily, if at all. Second, I want to find emails that have “Ken,” in the body of the email. Gmail ignores the comma. I have to think that either Google engineers don’t use gmail because they certainly couldn’t live with their lame filter functionality or that they have some secret gmail filter commands that we mere mortals are not trusted with. As far as gmail filters go, and as far as gmail engineer ability goes, the emperor definitely has no clothes.

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