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Ask HN: Anyone else have long-standing GMail filters that have stopped working?
Some filters I've had working in Gmail for years seem to have intermittently stopped working over the last year or so. I'll have a filter with a simple subject line match, and now I'm getting these messages in my Inbox, when they should be bypassing it.
Haven't been able to discern any pattern to this yet, but I haven't really dug into it. I wonder why the regression? Is this some kind of throttling? Like approximate matching?
- byoung2 8y agoI have noticed that occassionally the filters seem to run on a delay...I have filters to bypass the inbox and apply a label. I will see the email in the inbox for up to an hour before the filter runs and then later I see the label applied and the email is no longer in the inbox.
- elamje 8y agoAny conspiracy theories as to why that is? Considering the effort that goes into Google products (not to mention that gmail is a core product), it seems strange that in 2019 a feature like this is noticeably delayed.
- moonka 8y agoI've noticed the same on Spam filtering as well. It used to be instant but now more and more I see things show up for a few minutes before disappearing. I also just recently set up a new gmail account that required some filtering to a sizeable inbox and it was very painful because of the delays.
- codenut 8y agoThis is what you call eventual consistency.
- mikekchar 8y agoI had all my filters stop working about 5 or 6 months ago. I had to remove them all. New ones made exactly the same worked fine, but since I don't trust them now, I don't have any filters any more. No idea how it broke, but I guess it's a matter of software upgrades without the requisite data migration. Google's data composition is very complex so I can see this happening from time to time.