How to forward specific users mail to specific folder at Gmail

Login to your Gmail account

In the main page you will see the Account Settings as highlighted below

Click Settings

Click Filter then press Creat a new filter

Click the link to get the Filter option as below

If you want to organize the filtered email by labelling them, choose the option “Apply the Label” and click the drop down as seen below

If you want to create a New Label click the “New Label” and you will get the pop up as below

• Enter the Label Name and Click OK. You can edit the label names later, if you want to rename the label
• Once you create a new label you will see a confirmation as below

Gmail Label Confirmation

Another Procedure :

Login to your Gmail account
In the main page you will see the filter option as highlighted below

Gmail Filter

• Click the link to get the Filter option as below

Gmail Filter View

• So this is the page where you can enter the filter criteria.
• If you want to Filter incoming emails based on from address, enter the address of the person who is going to send you the email. You can enter his name or the email address, I suggest you to use the email address rather than name, because there are several similar names which will confuse you later
• If you want to set a filter based on to whom it was sent, you can enter that. Note: You may think, I only have 1 email address and all the emails are sent to that address so how am I going to enter my email Id to filter. I have one more post in this website which talks about multiple email address in your same ID something like blogpostdemo+test@gmail.com instead of blogpostdemo@gmail.com. These types of address are used to create filters to organize the inbox
• If you know the subject of the message, you can enter a word or few words of the subject to filter the emails
• If you want to filter all the emails with a word anywhere in subject or sender or receiver or body of the content, enter it in “Has the word” field
• If you are looking for an email without a word enter the word in “Doesn’t have”
• If you want to filter the attachments separately, check the “Has attachment” option

Gmail Filter From address

Gmail Filter To address

• So enter the search or filter criteria and click “Next step”
• Below image explains the overview of the other options, click the image to enlarge

Gmail Filter Options

• Here you have many options to select
• Once you click the “Next Step” you will get the above seen screen and Gmail also searches and bring the result at the bottom of the filter option

Gmail Option Selection

• If you want the Filtered emails to skip the inbox and “archive it” choose the option “Skip the Inbox” remember, you will not find this in your inbox at all. If you choose this option , I advice you to set a Label so you can go back there and see if there is any important message.
• If you want the filtered Emails to be automatically marked as read, choose the option “Mark as Read”
• If you want the filtered Emails to be automatically starred, choose the option “Star it”
• If you want to organize the filtered email by labelling them, choose the option “Apply the Label” and click the drop down as seen below

Gmail New Label

• If you want to create a New Label click the “New Label” and you will get the pop up as below

Gmail New label

• Enter the Label Name and Click OK. You can edit the label names later, if you want to rename the label
• Once you create a new label you will see a confirmation as below

Gmail Label Confirmation

• If you want any emails to be forwarded to a different email address, you can enter the email address in the “Forward it to” field. This is very useful if you are using more than 1 email ID and if you want to access the emails from different ID. There is also option of setting Gmail Mail fetching. I have posted that in this website, read it if you want to organize all your emails in 1 Inbox. Remember, You cannot forward an old email that is already in your inbox using the filter option. This option is applicable only to new emails
• Once you finish choosing these options for your filter, Click create Filter and set the filter of your preference.
• You will also have an option for assigning the filter to the existing emails in your inbox by click the “Also apply this setting to XX conversation below”
• Is you go to your inbox, you will see the difference based on the filter criteria you have choosen

I suggest you to read more about Gmail Tips and Tricks that I have posted here to increase productivity
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