I can think of two options available, neither of which are elegant:
- Add a
-to:my-team@example.com
to all the other filters that may archive the message.
- Use a variation of the above but instead of hard-coding the address, add a descriptive label.
There's no option to send an email to the inbox via a filter. Your only option is to prevent the message from being archived in the first place.
Solution #1: This one's pretty simple. So, for example, say you have the filter:
- when mail matches
to:other-team@example.com
, archive the message
You need to change it to:
- when mail matches
to:other-team@example.com -to:my-team@example.com
, archive the message
To use this negation, it may be easier to type in the "has the words" box.
Using this solution doesn't require you to maintain the filter order. The only downside is that if you have multiple email addresses that you need to keep (e.g. my-team2@example.com, my-team3@example.com, etc.), using this method you would need to add all of those to each filter. This can become hard to maintain. That's where solution #2 comes in...
Solution #2:
This one is more complicated and relies on the way Gmail processes filter rules. Basically it processes them from the top down. This means that if you modify one (which causes it to go to the bottom), you will need to remember to reorder your filters, so that it works correctly again.
You create the following filters, in this order:
- when mail matches
to:my-team@example.com
, apply the label dont-archive
.
- when mail matches
to:my-team2@example.com
, apply the label dont-archive
.
- when mail matches
to:my-team3@example.com
, apply the label dont-archive
.
- when mail matches
to:other-team@example.com -label:dont-archive
, archive the message
When creating the last filter, it will warn you about using the label. This message can be safely ignored, since you ordered the filters correctly.
Tip for solution #1:
Of course, if the email addresses are very similar, you might be able to use Gmail's limited stemming in order to use solution #1 with multiple addresses (e.g. instead of using -to:my-team@example.com
, use -to:(my @example.com)
which will also match my-team2@example.com
in this case.
Once you have created the contact group, you can add multiple email addresses or contacts at one time. To add email addresses, select the group on the left (which lists current members. Then click the Add to "groupname" button which will open a text box. Type in or paste in the addresses, separated by commas, and then click Add.
To add existing contacts to a group, you can click the check-box by those you want, and then select the group name from the Groups drop-down list.
Best Answer
Presently, there's no way to compose a new group email based on conversations in a label.
You can however, create a Contact group from an email message, rather than navigating to the Contacts page.
Compose a new message in Gmail and enter the email addresses of all intended recipients in the
To
field.Reply all
, and ensure all email recipients are in theTo
field (cc
orbcc
will also work).Click
To
to select contacts.Save as group...
and enter a name for your group.Reload Gmail
Compose a new message. In the
To
field, enter the name of your group and select the group from the autofill results.Caveats: