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[OT] Regular expressions in Gmail filters?

Lyle Johnson

2/17/2005 7:47:00 PM

Does anyone know how I can set up a Gmail filter that looks
specifically for the string "[EVALUATION]" in the subject line? If I
type in the literal string "[EVALUATION]", it's doing a
case-insensitive search and ignoring the enclosing braces such that,
for example, a subject line like "Someone needs a psychiatric
evaluation" is a hit.

I have the feeling that a solution to this problem will benefit many
ruby-talk readers.
4 Answers

Bill Guindon

2/17/2005 8:03:00 PM

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https://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8868&am...
Seems you can't, but why would you possibly need to filter that?
just kidding.


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:46:47 +0900, Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can set up a Gmail filter that looks
> specifically for the string "[EVALUATION]" in the subject line? If I
> type in the literal string "[EVALUATION]", it's doing a
> case-insensitive search and ignoring the enclosing braces such that,
> for example, a subject line like "Someone needs a psychiatric
> evaluation" is a hit.
>
> I have the feeling that a solution to this problem will benefit many
> ruby-talk readers.
>
>


--
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)

Douglas Livingstone

2/17/2005 8:48:00 PM

0

You might be able to get away with searching for "EVALUATION" in the
subject and the "from" address if it is a mailing list.

Douglas


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:46:47 +0900, Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can set up a Gmail filter that looks
> specifically for the string "[EVALUATION]" in the subject line? If I
> type in the literal string "[EVALUATION]", it's doing a
> case-insensitive search and ignoring the enclosing braces such that,
> for example, a subject line like "Someone needs a psychiatric
> evaluation" is a hit.
>
> I have the feeling that a solution to this problem will benefit many
> ruby-talk readers.
>
>

Lyle Johnson

2/17/2005 9:32:00 PM

0

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:02:35 +0900, Bill Guindon <agorilla@gmail.com> wrote:

> https://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8868&am...
> Seems you can't, but why would you possibly need to filter that?
> just kidding.

Ugh. Well, thanks for pointing me to that information anyways, Bill.

Lyle Johnson

2/17/2005 9:39:00 PM

0

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:47:47 +0900, Douglas Livingstone
<rampant@gmail.com> wrote:

> You might be able to get away with searching for "EVALUATION" in the
> subject and the "from" address if it is a mailing list.

I don't think that will cut it, although I may just be missing your point.

What I'd like to say is, "immediately archive all of the messages with
a subject line containing the exact string '[EVALUATION]'".

I don't want to filter out just messages from a certain someone, I
want to filter out all of them (i.e. I don't want to see *any* of the
messages in those threads). So I don't think I want to specify
anything in the sender (or "From:") part of the filter. I could make
it a little more targeted by filtering only those messages sent *to*
the ruby-talk list, but it's still going to flag any message with a
subject line that contains the word "evaluation", whether it's spelled
in all uppercase letters or not.

Bleh.