I hope you had fun with your sarcasm, but since this is only a user's forum, no one from GMail will get to read it.
I would think "-in:chat" would work, but since filters apply to messages when they arrive, and "all simultaneously", I can see why they might not work on filters to exclude. I personally just have chat turned off, so it's not a problem for me. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > Since May 2013, I find that my filters for gmail addresses now catches > chats. It's great. I like to keep myself busy, so yay, I get to wade > through lots and lots of chats before actually finding the email messages > that I actually want to read. > > Keep up the good work. While you're at it, may I suggest that you tweak > it some more to catch some random email messages that don't match the > filter, for no good reason. Because, you know, I like to keep myself busy. > > I used to be able to exclude the chats by putting -"Chat with" in the > Subject field. That no longer works. Using -in:chats doesn't seem to work > either (except as a manual search). > > There has GOT to be a way to say *I WANT TO LABEL EMAIL AND NOTHING > ELSE. NO CHATS!!!* > > In closing, MANY THANKS for cluttering a good thing. Keep it up. We need > more noise in our lives, we need to get less done, and we need to waste > more time looking for things that used to be easy to find. This new > improvement is an excellent step in that direction. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
