Email address auto-completion should consider sender's domain

[Skip Montanaro]

I route both personal email (several addresses/aliases) and work email (just one address) to Gmail. I find it more efficient to have one destination for email, separating mail using approximately 25 filters developed over the past several years.

I occasionally get stung by two related problems, which I attribute to Gmail not considering the email address from which I am sending my message. Consider the following two examples. Assume my work email is sk...@work.com. I have lots of work.com addresses in my contacts, some of whose names overlap with non work addresses.

1. I have a b...@work.com contact and am also subscribed to the intern...@gmail.com Google Group whose messages I receive by email. I get a message at sk...@work.com and want to forward it to Bob. Because I don't send mail to b...@work.com as often as I correspond with other bike geeks on intern...@gmail.com, Gmail always selects the latter over the former. Most of the time, when sending a message to Bob at work, I remember this problem and correct it, either by typing an "@" or a space, followed by the first letter of his last name, either of which eliminate internet-bob as a possibility. Every once in awhile, I forget, however, and work mail intended for Bob goes to internet-bob. Fortunately, the internet-bob list/group rejects the messages I occasionally send there because sk...@work.com is not a subscriber.
2. I have another colleague at work, let's call him Jeff. Because I communicate with Jeff both at work and outside work, I have both of his work and Gmail addresses in my contact list. Most of the time I send Jeff mail to his je...@work.com address. I rarely send to his je...@gmail.com address. Still, every once in awhile, when I send a message to Jeff, the Gmail auto-completer selects je...@gmail.com as the recipient. I have no idea why it does this only every-so-often.

Both of these mistakes would happen much less often if the auto-completer didn't get things right most of the time, lulling me into a false sense of security about the destination of my mail. I take full responsibility for inattentiveness in this area.

Still, it seems that if I am sending mail from my work.com address, auto-completion should prefer other work.com addresses over non-work addresses when I send mail. It should doubly prefer work.com addresses if I am replying to an email which was sent to  sk...@work.com.

I hope the Gmail team is listening...

Thanks,

Skip

[Zack (Doc)]

No Gmail team here, just us users.

I'm curious what other mail program you use that does that?  I have the same issues in Outlook, 

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[Skip Montanaro]

On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 1:21:49 PM UTC-6, Zack Tennant wrote:

No Gmail team here, just us users.

I'm curious what other mail program you use that does that?  I have the same issues in Outlook, 

Too bad. I'll see if there is some way to send input to the Gmail team.

I'm not using any other email program at the moment, certainly none that auto-complete email addresses. Also, This work+personal email setup using Gmail is something I've only used with Gmail.

Skip 

[Marko Vukovic]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Too bad. I'll see if there is some way to send input to the Gmail team.

​Settings>Help>Send feedback​

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Marko

[Skip Montanaro]

Yes, did that with a reference to this thread's URL...

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