I have a small 5 man team and we use Google for our email. All of the mail goes to mail@example.com and we filter it to our personal emails from there. So if someone sends mail to johndoe@example.com it gets caught by the "to:" filter and passed on.
I keep getting 'indirect' emails, usually from mailing lists that people signed up for, that the filter can't catch.
For Example:
from: gov-list <gov-list@domain.com>
to:
cc: gov-list <gov-list@domain.com>
date: Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:04 AM
subject: email list stuff
- Why can't I see who this is being sent to?
- How can I properly filter these to the right people?
Best Answer
You probably can't see who it's being sent to because the sender didn't put a value in the to: field. This is fairly common for mailing lists and such and is a courtesy; I know I get annoyed when my email address is exposed in a message sent to hundreds of people.
If you open up the message menu and choose "Show Original", you'll get a view of the raw email, including the headers. The "delivered-to:" heading there will let you know who the ultimate recipient was.
To filter these messages, you'll want to use the
deliveredto:operator. In your filter, in the "Has the words" field, put(Obviously, replace the email address with the email address you're filtering for.)