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addresses with plus signs in them. In these cases, you need to look at more of
GMail's iltering options.
Filtering with GMail
Before you get into the iltering, take a look at the e-mail you want to ilter.
What can you ilter on? For example, Google Alerts have “Google Alert” in
the title and the keywords for which you're searching. EZBoard notiica-
tions come from EZBoard.com. In those cases, you can ilter on the Subject
and the From lines. And, of course, if you created a unique e-mail address
with plus-addressing, you can ilter on that as well. Keep an eye out for pat-
terns in the header; they're easy to manage.
To access GMail's iltering, choose the “Create a ilter” link in the fairly tiny
type at the top of your page. A screen displays that looks like Figure 10.2 .
Figure 10.2 the irst step in using gMail to construct ilters.
Note that here you're only specifying what to ilter for. What happens when
the ilter is activated is for the next panel.
If you're iltering by From or To addresses and don't want to ilter on an
entire address, search for the strings on either side of the at sign (@). For
example, if you're iltering on [e-mail] , you could ilter
either for theexample , or example.com .
If you want to ilter by subject line, bear in mind that you don't have to have
the words in the same order as the subject line. So if you want to ilter on
the subject Google Alert - Monty Python you could ilter for Alert Google
Monty Python and it would match.