If you think the filter might catch a personal email, make sure to skim through your deleted items at least once a month, or consider using the archiving method described in the next example.Ģ. You only have 30 days to recover deleted items from the trash before they’re permanently deleted. When you find one, add it to your filter.Ĭaution: Gmail will automatically delete every email that uses one of the keywords or phrases in your filter. Open any newsletter or marketing email that makes it past your filter and look for keywords and phrases that are rarely used in other types of emails. Unsubscribe OR "view in browser" OR "view as a web page" OR "privacy policy" OR "click here" OR "view online" OR "update your preferences" OR "opt out" OR "manage your account" Open your filter to edit it, and add all of the words you want to filter on, separating each with the OR operator. If you find that this filter isn’t catching everything, expand it to include other words that are commonly found in newsletters and marketing emails. Now, any email that contains the word unsubscribe-which will cover the majority of the newsletters and marketing emails you receive-will be automatically sent to your trash folder. In the "Has the words" field, type unsubscribe.Ĭlick the "Create filter with this search" link. This filter tells Gmail to send those messages to the trash, by watching for the word "unsubscribe" in the body of the email:Ĭlick the down arrow in Gmail’s search bar to open the create filter form. Unsubscribing from every newsletter and marketing email that arrives in your inbox manually is an epic waste of time when you can get Gmail to do it for you automatically. Automatically delete all newsletters and marketing emails With that in mind, we’re ready to start creating filters in Gmail. We’ll provide more guidance on using operators while creating filters in the examples below.
Surrounding items with parenthesis tells Gmail to group those items OR filter any emails from either or asterisk is a wildcard symbol that tells Gmail that it doesn’t matter what text appears filter emails that come from any address on the Zapier domain. Surrounding text in quotation marks tells Gmail to look for an exact match of the text.įilter emails that use the exact phrase *view in browser*. The minus sign (`-`) operator tells Gmail to exclude a specific item from the filter any emails that come from the address " The `OR` operator tells Gmail to filter on either one thing or another.įilter emails with either the word *unsubscribe* or the word *browser*.