I am consolidating several Gmail accounts (leaf accounts) in on central account (e.g., [email protected]
).
When faced with the choice between :
- Forwarding from each leaf account to the central account
- Checking mail for all leaf accounts from the central account
I took the first option, because it seems instantaneous (while checking happens roughly every our).
I am trying to forward to a different Gmail alias for each leaf account.
Example: the first leaf account (
[email protected]
) would forward to[email protected]
.
I then use this forwarded to address as a criterion to create a filter for all mails forwarded from [email protected]
.
The problem
I did a few tests, and it appears that the Delivered-To:
field in the forwarded e-mail sometimes refers to the aliased address ([email protected]
), sometimes it does not ([email protected]
).
Several tests were made, with different From:
addresses, and with empty and non-empty mails, and I was not able to find the rule behind that. I am wondering if it is an inconsistency in Gmail's forwarding, or some deterministic rule?