Filters cannot combine OR and AND conditions
Gmail search cannot combine OR, AND and exclusion across From, To and Subject fields, so compound filter rules misfire.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
7 public reports · first reported 11 August 2014 · last reported 15 April 2026
What's going wrong
People who build Gmail filters for mail routing find that the filter dialog and search syntax do not reliably combine OR, AND and NOT across the From, To, CC and Subject fields.
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