Gmail Annoyances

Searching your gmail

Maybe your account is getting too close to filling and you want to search and delete messages smartly.
Note that if you delete them, they're not removed from your gmail space until you empty the trash. So the sequence of actions could be:

  1. Search for large emails, those from certain addresses, etc, and delete all of them.
  2. Empty trash.
gmail search
command		explanation
alphabetfind all mail with the word “alphabet” in it. Also finds those with “alphabets”.
from:georgefind all mail from this person
to:martha
subject:dinner
ORFrom:george OR from:martha
label:Adverts
has:attachment
“exact phrase”
in:anywhereAnywhere in gmail
in:inbox
in:trash
in:spam
in:sent
is:starred
is:unread
is:read
after:2004/04/16
before:2004/04/16		Msgs sent after midnight 4/16/2004 and before the start of 4/18/2004
newer_than:2d
older_than		newer_than:2d means, Messages sent within the last 2 days
d (day), m (month), y (year)
size:10MAll messages of at least 10MB in size
+unicornFinds words matching unicorn exactly – not different forms like “unicorns” or misspelled “unicron”

Examples

in:adverts older_than:10dall mail in the “adverts” folder older than 10 days
from:costco@online.costco.com size:5Mall mail from that address 5MB or larger in size
in:sent before:2020/09/15 after:2020/09/13 all mail that you sent in that time period, midnight on 9/13 to maybe a message on 9/16
  • Last modified: 2020.10.03 13:46
  • by smismi7