Gmail filters ignore regex and wildcard patterns
Gmail filters and searches cannot match regular expressions or wildcarded domains and plus addresses.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 27 December 2016 · last reported 6 July 2026
What's going wrong
Users try to filter mail with regular expressions, wildcarded subdomains such as fred at any server of a company domain, or wildcard plus-address tags used by test systems.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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