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In Gmail the inbox view only contains mail which has not been archived. I'm looking for a particular conversation I had with someone a while ago to find a quote, but I can't remember the exact topic or person I was emailing. I know it has been archived but I cannot find a way of viewing only archived email - I appear to have to browse through many months of All Mail in order to find the particular conversation.

Is there a more effective way of viewing only archived mail?

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Inbox is a label.

Search for -label:inbox

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Cheers, I had tried label:-inbox which didn't work but I had not tried it that way. Interestingly this doesn't filter out conversations where I sent mail but it still has a label of inbox - -label:inbox -label:sent mail gives me only archived mail though. – Thomas McDonald Jul 2 '10 at 15:25
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If you search for the following, only the archived emails should show up in the list:

has:nouserlabels -in:Sent -in:Chat -in:Draft -in:Inbox

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