Gmail Forward – Technology Help Center

Gmailï¿½s 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 senderï¿½s 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, enterï¿½ 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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How to ï¿½reply to allï¿½ ï¿½Forward allï¿½ ï¿½Print allï¿½ ï¿½Delete Messageï¿½ in Gmail?

Gmail offers multiple methods for doing the above.

If you want to delete the message in Inbox view, Select the messages in you want to delete and click the button ï¿½Deleteï¿½

When you select a conversation and Delete the message, all the emails n the conversation will be deleted.

So do not delete the entire message if you want to delete a separate message. The following steps will explain how to delete a single message in a conversation.

Click the message that you want to view and click on the small arrow appearing on the right top corner of the message view next to ï¿½Replyï¿½

You will see the below options.

So if you want to reply to all the email addresses in the specific message click ï¿½Reply Allï¿½

If you want to forward the specific message click ï¿½Forwardï¿½

If you want to create a filter for the type of message that you are viewing currently, click ï¿½Filter messages like thisï¿½

If you want to Print only the selected message excluding all the messages in the conversation, click ï¿½Printï¿½

If you want to delete only the selected message that you are viewing currently in a conversation, click ï¿½Delete this messageï¿½

ï¿½Report Phishingï¿½ rarely used. If you want to complaint any messages as Phishing, you can click ï¿½Report phishingï¿½

If you want to see the original message of the conversation, click ï¿½Show Originalï¿½

If your messages are not in good format or not readable click ï¿½Message text Garbledï¿½ this will open a new window with the message and display the massage in plain text.

All the above steps are applicable to separate messages, it does not affect the conversation in Gmail.

If you have a question or suggestion, post a comment.

Dave 🙂

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