The email is the de facto communication medium for business organizations. As a result, it’s vital to make your life as easy as possible and boost productivity whenever you need to manage emails. If you’re working in a business environment, there will come a time when you will need to do some bulk email forwarding. Sadly, Gmail doesn’t know how to do this – well it kind of does, but very inefficiently. You can forward multiple emails in Gmail by setting up a filter and forward all incoming emails to a different address. But this won’t help you forward those emails that are already in your inbox. I’m not entirely sure, but I believe that nobody wants to manually forward hundreds of emails by hand. Unless you want to pass the time on purpose and get yourself fired. If you’re sitting on a bunch of emails ready to be forwarded, we can help. There are better ways of forwarding in Gmail than opening each email in part. Below you have two methods that will help you forward emails in Gmail (including the native one).
Method 1: Forwarding Multiple Emails in Gmail with Filters
This is the “native” method I have mentioned earlier. While it’s not an ideal way of forwarding your emails, it works for the most part. Filters can be used to forward email conversations that already exists in your archives, but it dosesn’t work in every scenario and has a fair amount of limitations. This method is reliable when you want to forward emails that haven’t arrived yet. It’s sketchy when having to forward emails that are already in your inbox. In my test, this method has managed to miss over half of the messages that I’ve prepared to be forwarded. Here’s what you need to do to forward multiple emails with filters in Gmail:
Method 2: Using an extension to forward multiple emails in Gmail
Now this second method is far superior to Gmail’s naive filter way. If you’re not afraid of using extensions (no reason why you should), there are a few that will make forwarding bulk emails a lot easier. Since Gmail and Chrome have been fathered by Google, I recommend you using Chrome’s extension while performing this method. Note: Regardless of which extension you end up using, Google imposed a non-Note limit of 100 forwarded emails per day. So far, there’s no way to bypass that, from what I’ve gathered. Here’s how to use Multi Forward for Gmail extension to forward emails in bulk: That’s it. The recipient should receive the emails you just sent in a matter of minutes. At this point, you can safely close the Gmail window. The emails will look like any other email.
Conclusion
As you can see, there are two main ways of sending emails in Bulk from Gmail. Well, there’s also a third one, if you consider manually opening each mail a feasible solution. Realistically, there are only two time-effective ways of going about this issue. You either use an extension like we did in Method 2, or you make use of Gmail’s clunky filters to automate your emails (Method 1). But if I’m going to be honest with you, I always use Multi Email Forward for GMail. So far, it has proved to be a reliable way of sending emails in bulk. Using the Gmail filters runs a bit of risk and tends to ignore the messages that are already in your inbox. But in the end, it’s about choosing a solution that will accommodate the task at hand. If you know of a different way to forward Gmail messages, let us know in the comment section below.
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