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Ive tried that in the To field and it didnt work. Is that where that string should go?

Ah, it needs to go into the 'Has the words' box

Does the "from" box also need to include my email, so in your example above it would be:

From: [email protected]
Has the words: deliveredto:[email protected] AND -to:[email protected] AND -cc:[email protected]

I put this information in and ran a 'test' on the filter, and it still pulled up 100s of messages.

Thanks in advance.

No, the \”from\” box doesn't need myemail

I think your query should work, but keep in mind it will also turn up
messages that were sent to an email address other than yours (suchas
[email protected])

Thanks! I had tried using Delivered-To and some variations earlier but had failed. Poorly documented indeed.

If you're using your own gmail and a mail is sent to you the "deliveredto:[email protected]" is TRUE and can be omitted from the criteria.

THANK YOU!

I've been looking for a solution to this! I receive emails from a list that usually BCC's me announcements but sometimes sends me personal emails. I needed to filter the BCC's to a label but let the TO's and CC's go to my Inbox. This finally lets me do that!

What is the "special code" in deliveredto:[email protected]? Or how can one discover the special code?
tks

You can put any word in the special code. So, you could say [email protected] or [email protected]

Will this technique catch any bcc messages? Or is that impossible?

I can't get gmail's filters to *ignore* bcc. I tried "[email protected] -bcc:[email protected]" in Has Words, and I also tried Has Words [email protected] with Doesn't Have bcc:[email protected] And in both cases, it returned messages in which [email protected] *only* appears in the bcc field!

Question for ya. I’ve tried for days to get your solution (and others) to work.

I have a Gmail: [email protected]
Two of us, [email protected] and [email protected], get all messages to SharedGmail forwarded to us. We also have full access to send as SharedGmail from the Sender1 and 2 accounts.
This way Sender1 and Sender2 get all email sent to SharedGmail and can reply to them.

However, with this setup, if Sender1 or 2 sends replies to email as SharedGmail, that reply should be forwarded to Sender2 or 1, respectively, only. (I know, way confusing.)

Where I am trying to use your filter is that I would like it so that if Sender1 replies as SharedGmail, he can BCC to [email protected] and then I can use my forwarding filters to only forward that email to Sender2. (Sender1 does not need a copy of his own sent email.) And vice versa if Sender2 sends email as.

I’ve tried this filter:

deliveredto:[email protected] AND -to:[email protected] AND -cc:[email protected]

but I get no results.

I even have access to another domain that I could BCC and then throw the BCC emails away, so the BCC would be [email protected] and then use this filter on SharedGmail account:
deliveredto:[email protected] AND -to:[email protected] AND -cc:[email protected]

No dice.

Note that when I shorten the filter to either of the following, I get no results!!
deliveredto:[email protected]
deliveredto:[email protected]

I have also tried to use the BCC field directly as shown below, but to no avail.

bcc:[email protected] AND -to:[email protected] AND -cc:[email protected]

bcc:[email protected] AND -to:[email protected] AND -cc:[email protected]

I assume the mistake is syntax but I can’t get it to work and I’ve wasted HOURS trying to figure it out.

Mil gracias.

Wow, that is quite a setup.

I don’t think you need quite as complicated a setup.

Rather than forward SharedGmail messages to the two accounts, use POP
access to retrieve from it (leave messages on the server so the other
account can get them as well). Then you won’t see outbound messages
sent by your account.

You can then choose to bcc the other sender if they want to see the response.

I hope this helps!

Thanks for posting this! The key point that I wasn’t aware of (but is mentioned in the comments), is that one can enter arbitrary terms in the “Has the words” field. This is a great help!

just a quick note for those finding this thread only now: gmail has learnt the operator bcc:
so if you put
bcc:[email protected]
in “Has the words”, it works fine.
thanks for the initial idea! :)

Thanks!  super helpful – was tyring to learn how to do this, and didn’t know the operators went in the “has the words” field (tried the “to” field) :)

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