This is one of my favorite hacks because I use it all the time. If you use Google Workspace and Gmail, then this article will tell you have to set up default routes and rules for email delivery. Combined with gmail’s inbox filters, this alone must save me 2-3 hours per week.

This article is going to walk you through setting up a set of rules so that anything@yourcorp.net ends up in your inbox, but this is not a catch-all.

You can use anything@yourcorp.net as different emailes for different services. For example, I sign up with Hulu using hulu@yourcorp.net and if the email @yourcorp.net shows up in any data breaches, you know where it’s coming from. Or, If you work for on the vendor side, and you get United Airlines as a client; tell them to send any emails to unitedairlines@yourcorp.net. This makes everything more personalized, and you can set up different rules in your gmail inboxes.

Instructions

1. Log in to your Google Workspace account as an admin.

2. Go to your default routing settings
   

3. Click on add new rule
   

4. In the popup select the following options:

   • In Section 1:
     • Select Pattern Match and under regexp put @yourcorp.net
       
   • In Section 2:
     • Prepend custom subject, I personally use an emoji + unicode ` ••
     • Select change envelope recipient and then put your correct email address: yale@yourcorp.net
       
       
   • In section 3:
     • Scroll down to options and select Perform this action only on non-recognized addresses
       

5. Press save and test it by having someone else send an email to netflix@yourcorp.net
   

6. Check your inbox, and it should look like this: