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Old 1 Sep 2017, 11:09 PM   #1
xtremlylazy
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gmail intelligent forwarding

Hi, I'm looking for a way to forward to the right person emails coming to a common gmail address. The mechanism should be based on weights, i.e. I assign to the words 'gas' a weight 10, to 'invoice' 13, and so on, so that depending on how many times I find these words in an email, I can guess the likelihood that John (in the accounting office) will be the guy to work it, instead of James (back office), thus I forward that email to the right person.
Any idea will be very appreciated!
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Old 5 Sep 2017, 12:35 PM   #2
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Hi, I'm looking for a way to forward to the right person emails coming to a common gmail address. The mechanism should be based on weights, i.e. I assign to the words 'gas' a weight 10, to 'invoice' 13, and so on, so that depending on how many times I find these words in an email, I can guess the likelihood that John (in the accounting office) will be the guy to work it, instead of James (back office), thus I forward that email to the right person.
Any idea will be very appreciated!
Cheers
Unfortunately this does not sound like an intended use of Gmail, so I don't think you'll be able to get this to work with Gmail. Some of the speciality providers may be able to help you achieve this with sieve filters.
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Old 5 Sep 2017, 04:38 PM   #3
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Thank you very much for your reply Cory! I'll contact a specialist.
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Old 7 Sep 2017, 02:17 PM   #4
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Arrow Partial solutions to complex filtering request

Gmail can forward messages which match certain words and not others, but it doesn't allow the weighting technique you suggested. Try the following:
  • In Gmail navigate to Settings>Filters and Blocked Addresses
  • Create a new filter which has the words "gas invoice truck fuel" and doesn't have "ship waybill ups fedex". Click Continue and select Forward it to: (address 1).
  • Then create another new filter which has the words "ship waybill ups fedex" and doesn't have "gas invoice truck fuel". Click Continue and select Forward it to: (address 2).
  • Any of those words in either the message subject or body will trigger a rule.
    • If any of the "has the words" is present, that rule will be triggered.
    • But if any of the "doesn't have" words is present, the "has the words" forwarding will be overridden and the message will not be forwarded.
So I agree that Gmail can't do exactly what you request. Normal sieve code can't really do the weighting you requested either. But here is what you could do in a system which uses sieve code (such as Fastmail):
  • You could forward messages with any of certain words (gas OR truck OR fuel).
  • You could forward message with all of a list of words (waybill AND ship AND UPS).
  • You could forward a combination of AND and OR:
    (gas OR fuel) AND (ups OR fedex)
  • You can add NOT or other conditions:
    (gas OR fuel) AND (ups OR fedex) BUT NOT from jimmy
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Old 19 Sep 2017, 09:58 PM   #5
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