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This guide will show you how to sort emails by sender in Gmail using search methods within your inbox. Please note that these are alternative solutions; Gmail does not allow you to sort the entire inbox by sender. However, you can find ways to view all emails from specific senders.
Steps
View all emails from a specific sender
Open Gmail by visiting https://www.gmail.com/ on your computer's browser. This will open your Gmail inbox if you are already logged in.
- If you are not logged into your Gmail account, enter your email address and password before proceeding.
Locate the sender's email address. Open an email from the sender, hover your cursor over their name in the top-left corner of the email, and view the email address displayed in the window below.
the email address. Click and drag over the email address, then press Ctrl+C (on Windows) or ⌘ Command+C (on Mac).
Click on the Gmail search bar. This is the box labeled "Search mail" located above the inbox.
Paste the copied email address. Press Ctrl+V (on Windows) or ⌘ Command+V (on Mac) to paste the copied address, then press ↵ Enter to search for emails from that address in your inbox.
View the list of emails. You will see a list of emails from the selected sender.
Create a label rule for the sender
Open Gmail. Visit https://www.gmail.com/ on your computer's web browser. This will open your Gmail inbox if you are already logged in.
- If you are not logged into your Gmail account, enter your email address and password before proceeding.
Open the search tool menu.
Enter the email address. In the "From" field at the top of the selection box, type the email address of the person you want to filter emails for.
- As you type, a list of matching email addresses will appear in the menu below the "From" field. You can click on the desired name to add it to the "From" field.
- You can also type the person's name to have their email address appear in the selection list.
Click on Create filter (Create filter) at the bottom right corner of the selection box to open a new window.
Check the box labeled "Apply the label" in the middle of the window.
Click on the Choose label… (Choose label) gray box to the right of the "Apply the label" option to open the selection menu.
Click on New label… (New label) near the top of the selection menu to open another window.
Enter the contact's name. Type the name of the person you want to filter emails for in the "Please enter a new label name" field at the top of the window.
Click on Create (Create) at the bottom of the window to create a new folder named after the sender.
Check the box labeled "Also apply filter to matching conversations" at the bottom right corner of the window. This ensures that older emails from this sender are moved into the newly created folder.
Check the box labeled "Skip the inbox (Archive it)" if you prefer. With this option, emails will not appear in the inbox but can be viewed separately by clicking on your label name.
- You can still find these emails in the All Mail section.
Click on Create filter (Create filter). This will add older emails from the selected sender, as well as future emails, to the folder (or "label") named after them.
- You can find the label in the left column of the inbox, but you may need to expand this section and/or click on More at the bottom of the column to see the label.
Tips
- Filters and labels can be used in various ways to move unnecessary emails to the trash.
Warning
- There is no official way to sort your emails by sender groups without creating labels.
