I have setup a filter in my Google account, and I want to forward all the emails that match that filter to another email address. This procedure is no problem for emails that I will receive from now on, but how do I forward the ones I received in the past and that match the filter?
Gmail – How to forward historical emails with a filter in Google
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I actually just figured out a workaround using a different filter. With credit to this post, the way to do it is to filter the text in the email header, which includes the me@business.com address it was originally addressed to.
So I created this filter in the "has the words" field:
deliveredto:me@business.com
And had that filter apply the Business label.
All sent items from within Google Apps are signed like this:
example@example.com (Google Drive)
If you search for those items in the search field like this:
you can either:
- Select them manually, to do what ever you want;
- Prior to searching, you can create a filter.
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Best Answer
You could try to edit the respective filter and when you do that, on the second step Gmail shows you all the emails that match the respective criteria. There, you can select the "Also apply filter to X conversations below."
To sum up: