You can manage incoming mail using Gmail’s filters to send email to a label, or archive, delete, star, or automatically forward your mail.
- Open Gmail.
- In the search box at the top, click Show search options .
- Enter your search criteria. If you want to check if your search worked correctly, see what emails show up by clicking Search.
- At the bottom of the search window, click Create filter.
- Choose what you’d like the filter to do.
- Click Create filter.
Note: When you create a filter to forward emails, only new emails will be affected. Additionally, when someone replies to a message you've filtered, the reply will only be filtered if it meets the same search criteria.
Use a particular message to create a filter
- Open Gmail.
- Mark the checkbox next to the message you want.
- Click More .
- Click Filter messages like these.
- Enter your filter criteria.
- Click Create filter.