[clra]

Interesting.

I've recently gone through a bit of a reorganization of my inbox and filters, and as a slight alternative, I found that generally speaking, most providers are pretty good about keeping the "from" address that they send communication from relatively stable. My filters basically look like lists of the form `from:([e-mail] OR [e-mail] OR [e-mail])` and I apply a label like `orders`.

I have most of it still coming to my inbox so that I can vet each one quickly before archiving, but from there they have an appropriate label applied, and it's easy for me to go back and find them again. Some very common emails, like when I get an email from Square as I buy a coffee, I add "skip my inbox" and have it archive automatically.

It may be a little more manual in that occasionally I have to go in and add a new email address to a filter, but so far I've found the required maintenance to be very minimal (order of minutes every few months) and it saves me from having to maintain a `+` address or script.

[drinchev]

> I found that generally speaking, most providers are pretty good about keeping the "from" address that they send communication from relatively stable.

My observation is a bit different. I noticed that the marketing teams usually put a from address like "[e-mail]", "michael@" or any other first name they use to make it more "personal". This makes my filtering a bit difficult, since I usually want those e-mails to end up in "Newsletter" label, but all others important from this address like "[e-mail]" to remain in my inbox.