Gmail�s greatest strength is its filter options. This is far more better than any other email service providers like Yahoo and MSN.
- You can create UNLIMITED number of Gmail filters
- But when you create a forward filter you cannot create more than 20 forward filters
What is forward filter?
When you create a filter that sets few emails to be forwarded to a specific ID, these filters are called forward filters and Gmail only allows 20 forward filters
What if you want to add more forward filters?
You can use the combining forward filter options
If you want to forward 2 different senders to a same email ID, you can combine them, the steps are given below
- Login to Gmail
- Click create new filter menu which appears next to search button on top
- You will get the filter options as seen below
- In the From field of the options, enter the sender�s email addresses that you want to forward to any address
- For example, If you want blogpostdemo@gmail.com and blogpostdemo+test@gmail.com to be forwarded to another ID, enter� blogpostdemo@gmail.com and blogpostdemo+test@gmail.com in the from filed as shown below
- You should enter the email addresses in a bracket or parenthesis () and you should mention OR between both the email addresses
- (blogpostdemo@gmail.com OR blogpostdemo+test@gmail.com)
- You can enter more than 2 email addresses in the From field
- Click Next step
- Choose the Forward button
- Enter the email ID that you want to forward emails to
- And Click Create Filter to create a new filter
- So this way you can combine 2 or more filters into 1
- This is applicable to all the fields, you can mention OR and create filters to combine two filters
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