Your Gmail contacts are usually the people whom you have important relationships with and the most frequent communication with, so you want their emails to not get lost in the fray. Setting up a Gmail filter regarding their messages can help. You can’t do this by clicking on Gmail and selecting “Contacts” from your Gmail page. That direct link to your Contacts panel merely shows a list of your contacts. Initially, you must manually indicate to Gmail which messages are from your contacts; thereafter, it will automatically redirect them. Writer Bio

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