Just what the title says, how do I find the oldest email in Gmail? I know ho to find the oldest email from a specific person, but I’m interested in finding the oldest email, regardless of the sender or the label/folder it resides in at the moment. How can I do this without manually going through each label?
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No button, but it takes only 3t o 4 minutes to page-click (25email per page) back through 5500 emails, to start from the oldest. Kill, archive or use. – user129640 Jul 26 '16 at 0:21
All Mail includes all the mail.
- Click on the All Mail button on the side bar.
- Right next to the < > buttons you should see a link 1-100 of xx,xxx → click on the link.
- The drop down should give you two choices: newest and oldest; select oldest.
- You should now be on the last page.
Note: if the All Mail label isn't on the sidebar, it can be added via: Gear → Setting → Labels → show.
answered Oct 17 '13 at 10:58
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This doesn't necessarily work if there are many emails with whatever filter criteria you're using. Instead, see the method offered by @prplhaz4 – samthebrand Jul 31 '16 at 0:25
There doesn't seem to be an "oldest" link in gmail anymore so using this link to go to a really big page number seems to work:
https://mail.google.com/mail/#search//p99999
Method taken from systembash.com
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Actually this doesn't work. It gives me an error
Invalid search query - returning all mail.– Micer Nov 15 '16 at 9:15
