On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Cheyenne Kolody <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,I have suddenly begun receiving random emails that are addressed to > my husband's gmail account. I have a filter set in his account to forward > email from 2 specific senders, but I am now receiving some random mail that > clearly has his address and is not from one of the 2 filter forwards. I > checked in settings, in the forwarding section it shows my email followed > by (in use by a filter) - but that is the only place my email shows in his > settings. Can anyone help me figure this out? > Two possibilities come to mind: Maybe they were sent with your address in the Bcc field. Maybe those emails fit the filter parameters even though they weren't from the specified senders. As a simple example, one can use "me" to represent any of your own addresses (e.g. "from:me" or "to:me"). But "me" also matches anyone who has a @me.com email address, even though it's not me. Clearly, Gmail is doing some amount of parsing of the addresses, because "me" doesn't equal "[email protected]" but the filter calls it a match. That parsing might happen on both sides (the actual address, and the ones I list in my filter). So I have started putting whole addresses within quotes in my filters. I'm not sure if it helps. Andy -- 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.
