Comments on: How to Change the Order of Your Gmail Filters

By: rolfen

rolfen — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:52:21 +0000

You can usually reach your goal by using negative matches.

Example: all mails matching subject “Reply” will go in label “Reply”, and all mail matching subject “-Reply” (does not contain the word reply) will go in label “Others”.

By: Clif

Clif — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:12:24 +0000

Worked like a charm, thanks!

By: Odilon

Odilon — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:09:53 +0000

Try edit the filter, when you save, it goes to the end off the list !

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:39:35 +0000

Worked a treat! I had 50 filters. Your process took less than 5 minutes start to finish.

Thanks for sharing this.

By: FilterOrder

FilterOrder — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:19:10 +0000

I will try to explain it better. I have an e-main gmail account that retrieves e-mails from other accounts, so i have setup a label for each account. So far so good. The problem starts when i want to filter specific e-mails to other labels.

For example, i want e-mails from:various@newsletters.com to:account2@gmail archived+moved to label:NEWSLETTERS, from:various@foruns.com to:account2@gmail archived+moved to label:FORUNS, etc, and the REMAINING e-mails to:account2@gmail.com archived+moved to label ACCOUNT2. If the last filter is applied first, all e-mails are archived+moved to label ACCOUNT2, and all other filters will not be applied… or will Gmail apply filters to archived mail, too? Because if it does, this will create a huge label messup… folders, anyone?

By: elastic

elastic — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:03:01 +0000

I assume that Gmail filters are applied on any order, that more than one filters could hit the same email.
I specify in filter rules a full regular expression in match fields to avoid
any ambiguity, and now Gmail filters seem to work fine.

By: FilterOrder

FilterOrder — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:29:49 +0000

By: mike

mike — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:30:26 +0000

Gmail filters are applied from top to bottom.

By: FilterOrder

FilterOrder — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:56:50 +0000

In which order are the filters applyed? From top to bottom, or from bottom to top?

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:08:31 +0000

This was a great tip. Thanks!

By: Maria Romana

Maria Romana — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:03:25 +0000

Excellent workaround for a much-needed feature. I was just complaining about the lack of ordering rules in Gmail, when I thought to search for it, and your post came up. Yes, it’s a pain, but now I have things working the way I want.

Thanks,
Maria

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:55:10 +0000

Jammer, this is a terrific hack for an important missing feature. Thank you for the post!!!

By: Ted Wood

Ted Wood — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:17:11 +0000

I’m a huge advocate of Google apps, but some of the decisions they make around what gets priority and what gets fixed really boggles my mind. I need to control the order of Google filters and I don’t want to have to run through this many-step process just to control that. Please fix this Google!

By: Graeme

Graeme — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:20:54 +0000

Jammer, thanks for a great solution.
Jordan, I tried your edit/save and the saved one kept its place in the sequence.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:57:28 +0000

Another alternative is to quickly send items to the bottom of the list by editing them and saving with no changes. That said — it appears that in my filters, they’re getting applied in reverse order. The first filter shown is the last processed.

Is that consistent with others experience as well?

By: Matt D

Matt D — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:26:22 +0000

Thanks for posting this! It’s kind of ridiculous that Google still hasn’t implemented a simple way to change the precedence of their filters, but this workaround is great.