Filters miss forwarded, BCC, and shared-address mail
Gmail filters cannot match forwarded mail by origin, BCC, or a shared recipient address for leftover messages.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 6 November 2014 · last reported 15 April 2026
What's going wrong
People who forward a school or company mailbox into Gmail want filters that catch everything from that source, but the native filters only match the visible To or CC fields.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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