Gmail – Why does gmail fail to apply the filters for imported emails

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I forward my emails from
(1) IEEE using an alias (@ieee.org)
(2) AOL as imported via POP (@aol.com)

I use the filters to label incoming email.

I noticed that the filters I set up in gmail only work with the emails that were addressed as @gmail.com. Cases (1) and (2) above do not activate the labeling filters as they arrive.

I tried modifying the filters to include the to: field for cases (1) and (2), but they did not work neither.

Is there a way to make filters work with cases (1) and (2) above? Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Similar issue is with messages (SMSes) imported to gMail via an Android app from my phone: The import process labels my SMSes by the "lable:sms"... But it is the app itself (I assume), not the gMail mailer daemon-labeller.

So in general:

  • Whichever import does add messages to the gMail, can apply any label, i.e. even the label:inbox,
  • but it does not really fire-up the filtering process on the particular message.

I just assume, that the "new-email daemon" is different than the particular "import daemon" / or the "new-mail waiting daemon", of the gMail incoming-mail-client, is not used for the imported messages. The "new-mail" "apply-filters" process is not activated, not applied on the side-coming messages.

The massages coming through the real mail-channel seem to be treated as virgin messages, and the gMail-filtering (labeling) seems applied only for these virgin-emails.

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