Filters are simple enough that your average gmail user can understand them.
However, they fall short of the basic needs of the gmail power user.
Filters need the following features:
1. Language reference for all syntax of the mail filtering/search
language
2. Wildcard matching
- e.g. "from:*[email protected]" matches mail from
"[email protected]", "[email protected]", etc.
3. Negate any filter operator
- e.g. "NOT from [email protected]"
4. Operator for exact string matching, including case and punctuation,
excluding synonyms
- e.g. "[ERROR]" does not match "[failure]" or "ERROR" or "[Error]"
5. Apply multiple labels based on the same filter
6. Filter Cloning
7. Ability to name and order filters
- currently filters are ordered based on modification time
8. Ability to organize filters in a tree so it's possible to apply a
filter only to messages that match another filter
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