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I use email aliases for my email account to design incoming email filters for mail sent to me from different sources, for example:

  • me+newsletter@gmail.com
  • me+bills@gmail.com
  • me@gmail.com

It's easy for me to set up incoming search filters for the "newsletter" or "bills" aliases, so I can select messages sent only to those labels. For example: to:me+newsletter@gmail.com.

However, I have not figured out a design for an incoming mail filter to take action on emails addressed to my "bare" email, me@gmail.com. I've tried what I thought would be an exact match, to:"me@gmail.com", only to find that the filter selects email sent to all three addresses: me@gmail.com, me+newsletter@gmail.com, and me+bills@gmail.com.

What Gmail incoming mail filter will select only messages sent to me@gmail.com exactly so I can process them in some way (for example, forwarding them)?

Note: I filed a very similar question recently but I realized after an answer was submitted that I hadn't made it clear that I want to take action upon incoming email to my bare address rather than simply post-process email already received.

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The filter you need to use in the Includes the words field is:

to:username@gmail.com -(username+newsletter@gmail.com OR username+bills@gmail.com)

Please try it out and let us know how it goes.

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  • I know you had a similar question posted as well.Have you tried this new answer? Did it work for you? Feb 17, 2020 at 23:24
  • Please check the updated answer. Feb 17, 2020 at 23:43

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