Gmail filters lack regex and wildcard matching
Gmail filters cannot match regular expressions, wildcarded domains, or plus-address patterns.
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 write Gmail filters that match patterns, such as all subdomains of one company, a family of plus-addressed test addresses, or text matched by regular expressions.
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