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Maybe I’m the only one with this problem but I thought I’d share if there are others.

I have a few email addresses that are all forwarded to my gmail address. I have a blog that produces a lot of email with a fair amount of it being bcc-ed to the blog email address. I want to filter all emails to that address to be filtered into their own folder. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, but here it is. It’s definitely a bit of a work-around, but it can be done.

So for this example, I have these email addresses:
gmailaddress@gmail.com
otheremailaddress@somethingerother.com (currently forwards to gmailaddress)
secondarygmailaddress@gmail.com (secret gmail account currently not used)

We want everything that goes to otheremailaddress@somethingerother.com to be filtered whether it’s bcc-ed or not.

Here’s what you do:

1. Change your forwarding address for otheremailaddress@somethingerother.com from gmailaddress@gmail.com to secondarygmailaddress@gmail.com.
2. Log in to secondarygmailaddress and go to Settings->forwarding and set it to forward all your mail to gmailaddress+something@gmail.com (‘something’ can be anything, but it should be unique).
3. Go back to your gmailaddress account. Go to settings->filters and create a new filter. In “has the words” section put in “deliveredto:gmailaddress+something@gmail.com” (without the quotes) and set it filter that mail into a new label. Have it skip the inbox if you’d like (that’s what I wanted in my case).

If you want it to filter only bcc-ed email (but not email to the address or cc-ed to it), change the last bit to “deliveredto:gmailaddress+something@gmail.com -to:otheremailaddress@somethingerother.com -cc:otheremailaddress@somethingerother.com” (without the quotes).

Don’t use secondarygmailaddress for anything else. If you have mail sent there, you’ll start getting those in your filtered mailbox, too.