How to use AND , OR, NOT condition in Gmail filters?

Gmail is one of the most widely used email clients in the entire world. If you frequently use Gmail, then you will find that using Gmail Filter is beneficial for you. It makes it easier and quicker for you to find the specific mail you're looking for. In this article, I will be explaining to you how to use the "And", "Or", and "Not" conditions in Gmail Filter.

These (AND, OR, NOT) conditions/operations are logical operators. Conditions are statements that help the user to make decision-based on multiple expressions.

Let's discuss them one by one.

How to Use OR Condition Filter in Gmail?

OR means at least one of the conditions is true.

In Gmail, we can use three symbols representing Or Condition and they are:

•  |
• { }
• OR

Example:
Suppose you want to search all mail sent by Mail Id abc@gmail.com OR xyz@gmail.com then type :

OR

OR

You can even use 3 or 4 or many Or conditions like

But the cleanness one and my favourite is using the curly bracket as shown below.

If you want to get particular mail to send by you to recipients.

Find all the mail between two Dates:

This will provide you all the mail from 2021/02/01 to 2022/01/02

If you want to filter among multiple words then we need to use a quotation, as shown below.

Example: Finding out those mail which have "terms of service" OR "privacy policy" in the mail then you
can type below.

How to use the "Not" Condition in Gmail Filter?

NOT conditions make true statement to false statement and false statement to true statement.

For the 'not' condition you can simply use the '-' symbol.

Example 1:  Filter for finding those mail except send to "abc@gmail.com" look as below:

Example 2: Suppose you want to forward all messages send to the account except say abc@gmail.com and xyz@gmail.com then your Gmail filters look like this.

How to use "AND" Condition in Gmail Filter?

AND means every condition is true.

• Evaluation of query from left to right.
• Scanning from left, if found false then immediately stops

We are using AND condition knowingly and unknowingly. Let's look at the example of popularly used AND Condition in Gmail Filter.

1) Find unread mails from inbox

or simply

2) Find the emails either in the inbox or the spam.

label:spam OR label:inbox

3) Find emails only send to me

Here, we are requesting mail sent to me and not for any bcc and cc recipients.

4) Get All unread messages except a@gmail.com and b@gmail.com 

FAQ:

We can take the help of AND and OR Condition operator like below:

This query will include all mail that has a MyLabel1 label and exclude mail having an inbox label and MyOldBadLabel1.