I route both personal email (several addresses/aliases) and work email (just one address) to Gmail. I find it more efficient to have one destination for email, separating mail using approximately 25 filters developed over the past several years.
I occasionally get stung by two related problems, which I attribute to Gmail not considering the email address from which I am sending my message. Consider the following two examples. Assume my work email is [email protected]. I have lots of work.com addresses in my contacts, some of whose names overlap with non work addresses. 1. I have a [email protected] contact and am also subscribed to the [email protected] Google Group whose messages I receive by email. I get a message at [email protected] and want to forward it to Bob. Because I don't send mail to [email protected] as often as I correspond with other bike geeks on [email protected], Gmail *always* selects the latter over the former. Most of the time, when sending a message to Bob at work, I remember this problem and correct it, either by typing an "@" or a space, followed by the first letter of his last name, either of which eliminate internet-bob as a possibility. Every once in awhile, I forget, however, and work mail intended for Bob goes to internet-bob. Fortunately, the internet-bob list/group rejects the messages I occasionally send there because [email protected] is not a subscriber. 2. I have another colleague at work, let's call him Jeff. Because I communicate with Jeff both at work and outside work, I have both of his work and Gmail addresses in my contact list. Most of the time I send Jeff mail to his [email protected] address. I rarely send to his [email protected] address. Still, every once in awhile, when I send a message to Jeff, the Gmail auto-completer selects [email protected] as the recipient. I have no idea why it does this only every-so-often. Both of these mistakes would happen much less often if the auto-completer didn't get things right most of the time, lulling me into a false sense of security about the destination of my mail. I take full responsibility for inattentiveness in this area. Still, it seems that if I am sending mail from my work.com address, auto-completion should prefer other work.com addresses over non-work addresses when I send mail. It should doubly prefer work.com addresses if I am replying to an email which was sent to [email protected]. I hope the Gmail team is listening... Thanks, Skip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
