While lots of newsletters and mailing lists fall into the "spam" category, sometimes you want to read them but don't want them cluttering up your inbox. Filter them out in Gmail by including these oft-used phrases.


This is my Gmail filter for catching newsletters and mailing lists. It gets about 99% of them. I set the filter to apply a newsletter label so I can look at them when I have time.

Has the words:

"opt-out" OR unsubscribe OR "viewing the newsletter" OR "privacy policy" OR enews OR "edit your preferences" OR "email notifications" OR "update profile" OR smartunsubscribe OR secureunsubscribe OR yahoogroups OR "manage your account" OR "group-digests"


If you don't want emails from a particular domain to get lumped in with this crowd just set the From: filter to something like this:

-(*@facebookmail.com)

Even if you want to unsubscribe from the newsletters in question, you could always use this filter to label them for unsubscribing at a later date. Got any other tips or useful filter phrases for email newsletters? Share them in the comments, and be sure to check out our ten must-have Gmail filters as well.

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