Timeline for Search in Gmail - How to search the mails without reply?
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| Jun 21, 2023 at 8:57 | comment | added | Thieme Hennis | you could also add from:me to the search. helped for me. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 0:12 | comment | added | ivo Welch | I don't think this solution works anymore. it shows many conversations that had replies in conversation view. | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 14:46 | comment | added | glenviewjeff | -{"re:"} Doesn't work for me either. Threading is off. It seems to hide any email that ever had a reply, which includes the initially sent mail. Seems like a bug to me. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 12:23 | comment | added | Kev | This answer does not address the case where the un-replied-to email is already itself a reply to something. E.g. someone e-mails me "A", and I reply ("Re: A") but never hear back again. How do I find this "Re: A" e-mail that I sent? | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 22:30 | comment | added | Joe | The thing causing the problem is searching rather than filtering I think - I came to this answer (and upvoted) following a bit of a google search, and the filtering insight was the thing I needed to make my solution work - I've posted mine as a seperate answer - but it probably would need merging with this - not sure if that's an applicable thing... would appricate advice... | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 18:35 | comment | added | Kevin Vermeer |
@Lipis - I can confirm that mail with the subject, for example, "Re: Debugging" shows up when I search for -subject:"re:". And no, it's not case-sensitive.
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| Mar 15, 2011 at 1:54 | comment | added | Johnny | @Lipis the strange thing is that they did have "Re:" in the subject. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 14:38 | comment | added | Lipis |
@Johnny check their title and if there is no "re" string (as a whole word) included then there is nothing wrong with the results, but with the query.
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 13:22 | comment | added | Johnny |
@Lipis yes, I agree that it shoult be -subject:"re:", but the current problem is not that it filters more that expected. Even when I use -{"re:"}, it turns out that some reply mail still shows in the result
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 13:20 | comment | added | Johnny |
@Ophir I tried the -{"re:"} search, it stil show me some reply mails. I checked those mail subjects, they did contain the "Re: " string. It's wired that why this hasn't been filtered out?
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 11:44 | comment | added | Lipis |
@Ophir @Johnny I think the correct one will be -subject:"re:" to search only in the subjects of the e-mails. It still ignores the colon, so you might endup filtering out something that you don't want to.
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 10:44 | history | edited | Ophir Yoktan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added 67 characters in body
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 10:43 | comment | added | Ophir Yoktan |
use quotes. and you can skip the tagging - just search -{"re:"}
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 10:29 | comment | added | Johnny | @Ophir I see, yes the subject has the 'Re'. There is another problem, the gmail server seems to ignore the ':', which means, when I search for "Re:", it will show mails that contains "re". That would be a lot of non-reply mails. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 7:34 | comment | added | Ophir Yoktan | @Johnny Just tested it - it does ad a 'Re' - click the 'show details' link and it will show you the mail header. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 7:17 | comment | added | Johnny |
Thanks Ophir, but if people use web gmail to reply a mail, the subject won't contain the RE or something like this.
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 7:11 | history | answered | Ophir Yoktan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |