You can manage your incoming mail using Gmail’s filters to send email to a label, or archive, delete, star, or automatically forward your mail. In this article, I will show you how to set up a message filter to detect student email coming from the @webmail.blueridge.edu student email addresses and manage those emails accordingly.
Navigating to the Message Filter Page of Gmail's Settings
1. Click on the gear in the upper right corner and click "See all settings"
2. Click "Filters and Blocked Addresses"
Creating a New Filter
1. Scroll down and click on "Create a new filter" in the center of the page.
2. In From: webmail.blueridge.edu (this will automatically detect any email coming from email addresses with @webmail.blueridge.edu)
3. Click "Create Filter"
(The following criteria are examples of what can be accomplished. You can use your own judgement/what best fits your organizational needs).
4. Checkmark "Star it"
5. Checkmark "Apply the label" and Choose the Label in the drop-down.
6. Checkmark "Never send it to Spam"
7. Checkmark "Always mark it as important"
8. Also, apply filter to matching conversations.
9. Click "Create filter"
Note: This will only process incoming emails from students' Webmail addresses. If they email you from a different email address (such as a personal email address) this message rule will not process those emails. You can get fancy and create new filters (such as a filter that will look for all emails coming in from @stu.hcpsnc.org addresses) or if you have a list of students' personal email addresses, you can create a rule for the list using " OR " in between the addresses (see screenshot below in the "Reviewing Newly Created Filters or Existing Filters" section).
Reviewing Newly Created Filters or Existing Filters
If you need to view or tweak a message rule, you can always click on the Gear again, go to See All Settings, click on Filters and Blocked Addresses and choose the option(s) accordingly.
For more information on Gmail Filters, you can read Google's Official Knowledge Base Article