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

[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.