alt Hacker NewsI think it’s a major feature gap that Gmail (paid or free) cannot create filters on headers.
I also can’t do wildcard filters on “to” or “from”. For example, in my GApps I have it set up to route all emails not associated with a specific user to my primary user. So that it’s easier to make throwaway emails. I want to filter all to:`[email protected]` to a certain folder. No can do.
It just feels restricted.
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rustystump • yesterday at 9:09 PM
This so much this. Gmail overall is pretty meh and then it has these stupid footguns that make it awful.
> I want to filter all to:`[email protected]`
You can filter based on the to: field, yes.
For many years I’ve been creating filters on free Gmail for to:, from:, subject:, etc. I set them up on desktop web.
Perhaps there is something more specific you’re trying to do?
> a major feature gap that Gmail (paid or free) cannot create filters on headers.
You can create filters on header fields like from:, to:, and subject:, so I am guessing you mean something different than “cannot create filters on headers”?