2017-06-29 5:56 GMT+02:00 Andy <ai.eg...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Cecil Westerhof <cldwester...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is there a way to not label the messages that are already labelled with >> from address? >> > > Every incoming message is processed by every filter. Therefore, it's not > true that a message processed by your first filter, would somehow be > excluded from other filters. Removing messages from the Inbox doesn't > change anything about how the filters work. > > Also, filters do not necessarily act in any particular order. It's been > said or implied that all filters act simultaneously. Thus, the "second" > filter can't depend on the results of the "first" filter. > > If filters were sequential, then including "-label:firstlabel" in your > second filter might exclude those messages that were already labeled by > your first filter. This might work, or it might not. It never hurts to > try. > > If not, you might need to enumerate everything, for each filter. In other > words, your second filter should exclude all of the From: addresses that > were identified by your first filter. >
It is not very handy, but probably the best to do. It does not change often (I hope), so it is doable. > The other problem might be that messages in the same conversation, might > seem to have two labels, when in fact the labels were attached to different > messages in the conversation. This gets more clear if you temporarily > disable Conversation view. > If I still get this problem, I will try this also. Thanks. -- Cecil Westerhof -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
