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--- gmail_annoyances [2020.05.01 13:58] – [Searching your gmail] Steve Isenberg
+++ gmail_annoyances [2020.09.01 11:56] – Steve Isenberg
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 ====Searching your gmail====
-Maybe your account is getting too close to filling and you want to search and delete messages smartly.
+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:
+  - Search for large emails, those from certain addresses, etc, and delete all of them.
+  - Empty trash.
-|from:george|
+^gmail search\\ command^explanation^
-|to:martha|
+|alphabet|find all mail with the word "alphabet" in it.  Also finds those with "alphabets".|
+|from:george|find all mail from this person|
+|to:martha|find all mail to this person
 |subject:dinner|
 |OR|From:george OR from:martha|