I am amazed that GMail is the product of the search engine company.我很惊讶， Gmail是产品的搜索引擎公司。 GMail filter leave much to be desired. Gmail的过滤器留下很多有待改进之处。 Here are 10 reasons (and a bonus) for starters.这里有10个理由（和奖金）为首发。

With GMail filters you cannot:与Gmail过滤器，你不能：

  • name filters名称过滤器
  • filter on any folders, only incoming emails can be filtered过滤器的任何文件夹，只有传入的电子邮件，可过滤
  • exclude terms from From, To of Subject field.排除条款，从从，以学科领域。
  • filter on cc or bcc which are pretty standard fields过滤器对消委会或密件副本，这是非常标准的领域
  • filter on any non-standard header fields过滤器对任何非标准标题栏位
  • filter based on attachments (presence) or their size, even GMail Search boasts of “Has Attachment” capability过滤器的基础上附件（存在）或其大小，甚至Gmail搜索拥有的“实习”的能力
  • filter based on multiple criteria like say has x in subject or y in subject过滤器基于多重标准，例如说有X的主题或Y的主题
  • create complex queries of any form建立复杂的疑问，任何形式的
  • auto-reply based on filter match自动回复的基础上筛选匹配
  • mark as spam based on filter match标记为垃圾邮件的基础上筛选匹配

In MS Outlook, for example, you can select custom actions like running a program of your choice.在MS Outlook中，例如，您可以选择自定义的行动一样，运行程序您选择的。 Imagine doing that in GMail!试想这样做在Gmail中！

Any desktop email client will be much stronger than GMail in terms of filter functionality.任何桌面电子邮件客户端软件将大大强于Gmail的条款过滤器的功能。

GMail filters are very simplistic and with minimal functionality. Gmail的过滤器是非常简单和最小的功能。 Frankly I expected better from Google.坦白说，我预期更好的从Google 。