Gmail’s filled with hidden features and add-on possibilities, but one of the service’s most powerful organizational tools is sitting right in the heart of its regular settings. As you may have guessed ...

If you use Gmail as your day-to-day email system, chances are it’s a little disorganized. Although Google provides some powerful filtering tools, does anyone have time to make use of them? Just ...

Hundreds of millions of people use Gmail but only a small subset of them dig deeper into the advanced features that are available in their inbox, such as filters. Setting up new rules for incoming can ...

Ever wish you could get even more nit-picky about your Gmail filters? Free Gmail-based webapp Syphir filters messages by arrival time, number of recipients, and whether they "need" replies. It really ...

I stopped deleting emails, and Gmail cleaned itself.

Gmail filters search your email messages using criteria that you set. The filters can search specific email folders or search by date, subject, recipient or content. You can perform a number of ...

Reader Sameer writes in with this handy Gmail tip: I needed to set up a filter that would apply label 'work' to any email that came from '[email protected]' OR had the word 'workoholic' in it.

The first thing to do when creating a filter is to tell Gmail what kinds of messages you want it to look for. You can do this by setting search criteria for the filter. Once you have set the search ...