Re: [PCWorks] Gmail filters not working, where is "contains"??

  • From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:16:40 -0500

Thanks.  Yeah, I saw that.  But when you put the word in there, it still 
says "Matches" and not "contains", and any test email with the filtered 
word in the subject still gets through.  (You're snipping too much of 
the original posts, I put it below again).
-Clint

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Vandervoort"


Look hard at the very first screen. "Subject" is right there.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
<> wrote:
> I can't believe how much these people complicate things. I'm trying to
> create the most common filter type, to delete emails that have a 
> certain
> word in the subject. How???
>
> All they say is:

"Enter your filter criteria. In the 'Has the words:' field, you can use
any advanced operators to filter messages meeting various criteria.
Please note that the 'or' function in Gmail is represented by 'OR,' and
the 'not' function is represented by a minus (-). You also can use
quotes (" ") to specify an exact phrase."
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8931

Ok so you enter the word in the 'Has the words:' field, but how to tell
it it's the SUBJECT??  Furthermore, regardless of any filter you create,
they always end up "Matches" and never "Contains"!  So the subject can
only have that one word in it to be filtered! 

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