Some of my my husband's mail has randomly begun coming to my email account

[Cheyenne Kolody]

Hello,I have suddenly begun receiving random emails that are addressed to my husband's gmail account. I have a filter set in his account to forward email from 2 specific senders, but I am now receiving some random mail that clearly has his address and is not from one of the 2 filter forwards. I checked in settings, in the forwarding section it shows my email followed by (in use by a filter) - but that is the only place my email shows in his settings. Can anyone help me figure this out?

[Andy]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Cheyenne Kolody <cheyen...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,I have suddenly begun receiving random emails that are addressed to my husband's gmail account. I have a filter set in his account to forward email from 2 specific senders, but I am now receiving some random mail that clearly has his address and is not from one of the 2 filter forwards. I checked in settings, in the forwarding section it shows my email followed by (in use by a filter) - but that is the only place my email shows in his settings. Can anyone help me figure this out?

​Two possibilities come to mind:

​Maybe they were sent with your address in the Bcc field.

Maybe those emails fit the filter parameters even though they weren't from the specified senders.  As a simple example, one can use "me" to represent any of your own addresses (e.g. "from:me" or "to:me").  But "me" also matches anyone who has a @me.com email address, even though it's not me.

Clearly, Gmail is doing some amount of parsing of the addresses, because "me" doesn't equal "foo...@me.com" but the filter calls it a match.  That parsing might happen on both sides (the actual address, and the ones I list in my filter).  So I have started putting whole addresses within quotes in my filters.  I'm not sure if it helps.

Andy

[Cheyenne Kolody]

I thought about the filter parameters and deleted all but one, from a specific address, the mail I was receiving was generally advertising emails, with his address clearly in the to field. Yesterday I received one of his voicemail notifications from Google Voice. Any other ideas?