Gmail question

[chrisvenus]

I was playing with gmail earlier as mentioned in my earlier post and I have found a problem that I can't seem to figure a way round...

For my incoming e-mail I can receive anything @planetvenus.org.uk. So I can make up e-mail addresses on the spot. My general habit is that anything I really am interested in (as opposed to just filling in a compulsory registration form or a one off doodad) will get something of the form foo-chris@planetvenus.org.uk. I then used to filter mail so that *chris@planetvenus.org.uk would come through to my "main" inbox.

I tried to set up a filter to do this in gmail and apply an appropriate tag but it appears that the filters don't do wildcards. So can anybody think of a cunning way for me to be able to do this? I can just cut down and tag on an "on demand" basis but it would be nice not to have to...

So anybody else come across this problem and have a solution? googling turned up nothing useful so far...

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I can't think of a way to do this. (I've never needed to solve it in that way. I filter stuff before it reaches GMail.)

I have a GMail filter that applies a tag to all mail sent to my private address, but email to other unfiltered addresses still reaches my inbox (which is fine for me, since GMail's spam filter traps the vast majority of spam and I don't get all that many non-spam commercial emails).

[kievala.livejournal.com]

If you're using the 'mail from other accounts' option then yes you can. It's simply a case of applying the label to all mail coming in from that source and then clicking the 'Archive incoming messages' option which means those emails won't go into the inbox.

Hope this helps

[logmplus1.livejournal.com]

Gmail doesn't have wildcards, but it will happily do negations. So set it to tag and archive everything sent to -(chris@planetvenus.org.uk), and that'll only leave things that aren't sent to that address in your inbox.

I think that will, however, tag and archive things where you're not in the To or CC header, such as if the email was BCCed to chris@, as it can't tell the difference.

I use Sneakemail. The free version will let you create redirect email addresses like at52rsi02@sneakemail.com, which will then be tagged in the From address with whatever name you give it, making filtering somewhat easier. I pay $24 per year to them, which allows me to create email addresses as you do, of the form foo-{constantword}@sneakemail.com, which similarly tags the From address, and has the advantage that I don't need to give away anything even approximating my real email address unless I want to.