One solution that works for me is to add both email addresses under the same contact in Gmail.
To do this, go to Gmail > Contacts, find the person (either email works if both already exist in the contact list), and click on Add Email right under the first email address already there. Then paste the second email for that person. Finally, make sure the full name is correct for you to be able to find it again later, when you're composing an email (sometimes, Gmail can't figure out the name of the person based on their email address only).
If both email addresses have never been used before in Gmail (and you haven't manually created the contact entry for that person), then you will have to create the contact yourself and enter both email addresses, with the full name of the person. If you already exchanged at least one email with the person, Gmail will have saved that email address, but again, beware it might lack the full name of the person which is important for you to be able to find it again later.
Bonus tip for the power-user: If you already have two contact entries for the same person, you can select both in the contact list, and click More > Merge Contacts. This will take both email addresses and put them in one contact entry, which is extremely useful. It also merges other infos, so if you created an entry for Bob with his phone number on your smartphone (assuming your Gmail contacts are synced), and have another entry for Bob Adams in Gmail, you can select both of them (knowing they are the same Bob) and merge and get one nice contact with all informations in one contact.
I've faced with the same problem. Google can't manage to display your email both in inbox and outbox with the same ID. Since your mail was a sent email firstly google does not change it later.
There are two ways (according to my knowledge :) ) to handle this issue:
- create a filter in your gmail (sent from your emial and sent to the list) and move the filtered emails to the inbox
- change your external account to forward the email to your gmail instead of using pop3 integration
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GMail does not directly allow you to set alternative name to your email address but there is a trick.
First, you need to know that if your email address is
abc@domain.com, if someone sends an email toabc+def@domain.comthe email will still reach your inbox. The+defpart is called "address tag" (click here for wikipedia article) and it allows you to have variations of your email address for purposes like filtering etc. But for your case we are going to use it to assign different names.Steps:
Hope this helps!