Useful Simple Search Command For Searching Any Email in Gmail
Date 28/12/2012
While some GMail users download email locally to Outlook or Thunderbird and then use Windows desktop search to find emails, GMail itself offers some very powerful search capabilities. Let's explore the most useful Gmail search filters and their usage:
1:- I have hundreds of unread emails in my Gmail Inbox but not all of them show up on the main page. Can I bring up view in GMail containing only unread messages.
Search Command:- label:inbox is:unread
2:- I received an email from Paypal support last week. I am not sure if I deleted the message, archived it or marked it as Spam.
Search Command:- from:Paypal in:anywhere
3:- I have dozens of unread email messages in the Inbox but I am in a hurry to check them all. Show me just the messages that are for me.
Search Command:- is:unread after:2012/12/28 to:your.email@address.com
4:- Siddhartha is a good friend who send me pretty interesting PowerPoint / Word files that often have inspirational quotes, beautiful natural landscapes and funny slide shows of Cats. I love it all but they take too much space.
Search Command:-from:Siddhartha has:attachment [Select all and then delete]
5:- I accidentally deleted an important email message from a colleague. My GMail trash is already overflowing. How do I retrieve that particular message.
Search Command:-label:trash Name_Of_Your_Colleague
6:- I use GMail to automatically backup my Blogger blog. The database backup are stored via email attachments as Zips. Since I am running short on GMail storage, I would like to delete all backups that are older than two weeks.
Search Command:-filename:.zip before:2012/12/28 Blogger
7:- While chatting over Google Talk, Veronica sent me a link to her Flickr pictures.
Search Command:- in:chat from:veronica flickr.com
8:- I have two contacts in GMail with similar names - Peter King and Peter King Junior. Can I see emails the received from the former contact.
Search Command:- from:Peter King -Junior
9:- I recived a email with some attachment and attach-ted file size is approximately 2mb to 3mb
Search Command:-size:2m or larger:2m
Search Shortcuts: Instead of typing label:unread, you can simply type l:^u
Important: Unlike Google web search, GMail won't suggest search results that contain plurals or misspellings of your search query. For instance, a search for "computer" will only show email with that exact word - you won't see messages containing the word "computers".
While some GMail users download email locally to Outlook or Thunderbird and then use Windows desktop search to find emails, GMail itself offers some very powerful search capabilities. Let's explore the most useful Gmail search filters and their usage:
1:- I have hundreds of unread emails in my Gmail Inbox but not all of them show up on the main page. Can I bring up view in GMail containing only unread messages.
Search Command:- label:inbox is:unread
2:- I received an email from Paypal support last week. I am not sure if I deleted the message, archived it or marked it as Spam.
Search Command:- from:Paypal in:anywhere
3:- I have dozens of unread email messages in the Inbox but I am in a hurry to check them all. Show me just the messages that are for me.
Search Command:- is:unread after:2012/12/28 to:your.email@address.com
4:- Siddhartha is a good friend who send me pretty interesting PowerPoint / Word files that often have inspirational quotes, beautiful natural landscapes and funny slide shows of Cats. I love it all but they take too much space.
Search Command:-from:Siddhartha has:attachment [Select all and then delete]
5:- I accidentally deleted an important email message from a colleague. My GMail trash is already overflowing. How do I retrieve that particular message.
Search Command:-label:trash Name_Of_Your_Colleague
6:- I use GMail to automatically backup my Blogger blog. The database backup are stored via email attachments as Zips. Since I am running short on GMail storage, I would like to delete all backups that are older than two weeks.
Search Command:-filename:.zip before:2012/12/28 Blogger
7:- While chatting over Google Talk, Veronica sent me a link to her Flickr pictures.
Search Command:- in:chat from:veronica flickr.com
8:- I have two contacts in GMail with similar names - Peter King and Peter King Junior. Can I see emails the received from the former contact.
Search Command:- from:Peter King -Junior
9:- I recived a email with some attachment and attach-ted file size is approximately 2mb to 3mb
Search Command:-size:2m or larger:2m
Search Shortcuts: Instead of typing label:unread, you can simply type l:^u
Important: Unlike Google web search, GMail won't suggest search results that contain plurals or misspellings of your search query. For instance, a search for "computer" will only show email with that exact word - you won't see messages containing the word "computers".
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