Great tips Andy. I did not know you could change from All Mail to anything else when setting up filters (mine have been in place for years without change), so it's good to hear that got you sorted out.
Hope it helps others with similar problems. On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that the problem for me came to be because I was using filters > that were already created prior to the latest changes in functionality. > So, even if I modified it, the results were not what I expected. > Apparently, I would just ended up making another filter, while the original > filter was still in place to catch everything including the chats. > > Basically, I ended up deleting the filters(s) in question and recreating > them from scratch. I found a couple of ways to get it to filter email > without catching chats: > > 1) Start with a search and, in addition to setting up the criteria as > needed, change the Search drop-down from "All Mail" to "Inbox." Click on > "Create filter with this search." You will get a message saying that this > is not recommended because it's one of those searches that (supposedly) > will never match incoming mail. However, it IS what we want because the > idea is to make sure it IS incoming mail, which it obviously WILL be. > Click OK and go from there. > > 2) If you are editing a filter, just make sure you configure "Has the > words" to say: label:inbox Once again, you will get a message saying that > this is not recommended as noted in the other method. Click OK and > continue as usual. > > So far, it seems to work...and my hope for humanity is once again > restored. :-) > > -- > 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.
