Yahoo mail filters using binary "or"

Factual Questions
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Yeah. I still use yahoo mail. I have been since 1995. I have a lot of information in there and everyone knows my email address. I have a bunch of other accounts that I’ve accumulated throughout the years, but the Yahoo email has always been my main account.

As such, I have a lot of filters to sort incoming emails in different folders. My main issue is that I have a lot of advertisement emails coming from different vendors that I put into an “Adverts” folder. The only way I can currently get it to work is by creating a separate filter for each vendor which is driving up my filter count toward the 100 max that I can have with a free account.

These are companies that I regularly do business with, so I don’t want to opt out of the emails because every so often a great deal comes through. However I don’t want them flooding my Inbox every night.

The current working filters have rules similar to -> Sender:Contains:basspro

However if I try to add other senders to the list, it doesn’t work. -> Sender:Contains:basspro or guitarcenter

I’ve tried multiple variations on the above like capitalizing the “or” or putting quotes around the matching strings like -> “basspro”

None of it worked. My google-fu might be rather weak, but I was unable to find any definitive answers on whether or not this should work. I was hoping you smart people might know.

BTW, apparently Yahoo got smart and put their forwarding function as part of their pay model. So I have to pay $20 a month to forward it all to my gmail account, but that rather defeats the purpose of the yahoo account in the first place. Besides, paying for their premium service, the amount of filters I could have is doubled.

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Could be you need to have complete statements…

Sender:contains:basspro OR sender:contains:guitarcenter

That’s how it usually works in programming.

3

This page seems to indicate that you can’t do what you’re trying to do.

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That is two separate filters, which is what I already have. There is a line for Sender, Recipient, Subject and Email Body. Each line has a dropdown list with Contains, Does Not Contain, Begins With, and Ends With. Then there is a textbox to enter the string to match on. At the bottom you pick which folder to put the email in.

I was trying to enter in multiple senders into the textbox on a single filter to cut down on the number of filters in my list. But…

[QUOTE=Manduck]

This page seems to indicate that you can’t do what you’re trying to do.

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Thanks, Manduck. That just confirms my suspicion.