No Gmail team here, just us users. I'm curious what other mail program you use that does that? I have the same issues in Outlook,
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Skip Montanaro <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
