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EDIT: You cand find additional information in Is it possible to create a Gmail filter that works on headers other than From, To, Subject?

I have two email accounts, one is my main Gmail account which I check regularly (for simplicity I name it [email protected]), and the other one is from university mail service where I currently study (and I name it [email protected]).

As the disk quota of university mail server is too low and there are lots of daily announcements from university staff which contain huge attachments, after about 5-7 days all disk quota is used and afterwards no emails will be delivered to my inbox.

So I created a filter in the university mail service (which uses Zimbra) to forward all received messages to email alias mygmail+UNIFWD@gmail.com and then delete the message.

Now the main problem is: I want to create a filter in Gmail to mark these forwarded messages with a custom label, but the information included in message header, specially FROM and TO fields, is not enough to distinguish these messages from other ones (as shown below)

Mail information

As you can see, there is no sign of alias I used in the Forwarding Address in Zimbra's filter settings. Even I can't rely on TO field (which contains [email protected]) because there are messages which are sent to both of my email addresses, so some mistakes will occur if I use this field.

By the way, these forwarded messages are marked by Gmail as being sent via mail.uni.com

Is there any way I can use this to filter messages?

Did I miss something while setting up the filter in Zimbra?

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Use the deliveredto: search keyword.

Search for messages within a particular email address in the Delivered-To line of the message header

Example: deliveredto:[email protected] Meaning: Any message with [email protected] in the Delivered-To: field of the message header (which can help you find messages forwarded from another account or ones sent to an alias).

(Google support)

So, searching for (or using a filter with) deliveredto:[email protected] should give you what you need.

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  • Thanks, deliveredto keyword works fine with all Gmail and Google Admin Domains, but not working if other email account is hotmail or a simple admin by cpanel account, is that field called different in other email providers?
    – unmultimedio
    Commented Sep 2, 2014 at 6:22

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