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Gmail now supports
category:primary is:unread
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You can do searches that exclude certain labels. That is, searches like this will do what you expect:
(label:MyLabel1 AND NOT label:inbox AND NOT label:MyBadLabel1)
That search will show you only messages that:
Do have MyLabel1
And do not have label inbox
And do not have label MyBadLabel1
The tricks are:
to get yourself out of conversation mode! (As @...
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Not in general, no.
The Gmail search functionality works based on what I would describe as tokens. A token is any sequence of alphanumeric characters separated by a space or by other non-alphanumeric characters such as underscore, full stop (period), "@", dash, etc.. So in peter.ford23@example.com there are 4 tokens: "peter", "ford23", "example" and "com"....
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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 ...
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The option to disable the highlighting ("Turn off highlighting") is located in the "More ▼" menu between the search box and the email title
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You can try -(label:labelname) enter your search here for more labels to be excluded just continue the following syntax:
-(label:Inbox) -(label:Updates) -(label:Social) enter your search criteria
Hit enter
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The specific times are mentioned in the documentation to show that the "after" operator is inclusive of the date given, while the "before" operator is exclusive of the date. There is no way to use the search box on a more specific time range.
If you are using Google Apps Scripts, you can make your search using the best dates you have. Then you can filter ...
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I decided to use this search operator:
from:me -subject:"re:" -is:chats -is:draft -has:userlabels
It's not perfect, but it cuts down on a lot of the conversations.
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The TO:myemail@myemail.com will return all messages sent to myemail@myemail.com, including those where myemail@myemail.com is CCed (or BCCed in case you send the e-mail, since you can see the BCC).
Use TO:myemail@myemail.com -CC:myemail@myemail.com -BCC:myemail@myemail.com instead. (the 'not' function is represented by a minus -)
Parenthesis are only ...
answered Oct 23 '13 at 16:16
Franck Dernoncourt
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Confirmed, as of 1-30-14,
is:unread category:primary
works.
I think I've been using is:unread category:primary-inbox for a while but I think they just discontinued it, because it wasn't working for me today.
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Even though the two halves (From:...) and (To:...) are enclosed in parenthesis, I think you will get more accurate results if you prefix both addresses in each half with the From: or To: accordingly(see below). As it is now, I think it is searching for the second email address of each half anywhere in any message.
Example:
(From: johndoe@gmail.com OR From:...
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I don't think there is a complete solution to your question, but following filter is the closest thing I can come up.
-cc:(*@*.(arpa|root|aero|biz|cat|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|mobi|museum|name|net|org|pro|tel|travel|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|...
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The issue is that the star is associated with a message, not the entire conversation. So when you use:
is:starred it returns all conversations where at least one message in the conversation has a star.
-is:starred returns all conversations where at least one message is unstarred.
Unfortunately when you look at the list in the GUI all the Conversations in ...
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There's no "today" search operator, but you can filter to the last 24 hours with the newer_than operator.
in:inbox newer_than:1d
(Unfortunately "0d" doesn't work.)
That should work for what you want to do.
Source: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190
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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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Just a few years late, but I wrote a Gmail plugin to help with this. It's been pretty popular so far and is probably used by thousands of people by now. You can find instructions for it here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131231004200/http://jonathan-kim.com:80/2013/gmail-no-response/
https://github.com/hijonathan/google-scripts/blob/master/gmail-no-...
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You probably do not have any mail older then 2006. Gmail will display all mail irregardless of its overall age. After checking my own account which was created in November of 2004 (only 7 months after Gmail first came out). I can see all mail going back to the original welcome email. See the screenshot below as evidence.
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By folder, you mean label right? If you navigate to a label, it should already populate the search bar with the format needed. So if I have a label called "Finances" the search should be
label:finances and then whatever you're searching for
If it's nested, it will be marked by a dash so if I have a "Bills" folder under that it would be
label:finances-...
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With the following piece of code it is possible.
Code
function getFirstFrom() {
// get active sheet and clear contents
var sh = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
sh.clear();
//http://stackoverflow.com/a/12029701/1536038
// get all messages and retrieve 'date' and 'from'
var eMails = GmailApp.getMessagesForThreads(
GmailApp.search("label: ...
answered Jul 29 '14 at 12:22
Jacob Jan Tuinstra
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Unfortunately, no, there's no activity log within Gmail that's accessible to users. The only "undo" option there is, really, is what's available immediately after performing an action.
So, recovering what you happened to have labeled "inbox" doesn't seem practical. At best, you could look through your messages in "all mail" for the past month or so and see ...
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Yes, it is possible, however not by using any kind of filter.
If you have the account added in the settings menu under the "Accounts and Imports" tab of the settings then the emails will appear in the to:me search.
I have confirmed this works as this is how I do it.
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Yes, there is a way. Enable the Quick links Lab, and add to it the URL of your Gmail search.
To add the "Quick links" lab, do the following
Go to Settings (cog wheel) > Settings
Click on the Labs tab
Search for Quick links
Click the related Enable radio button
Click on the Save changes button.
Once the Quick links is enabled it will be available in the ...
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It is a Labs feature:
I don't know why it was turned off...
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Try the before:{date} and after:{date} search operators., in addition to any search terms or sender filters you can remember. This can be done by typing them into the search bar, or by dropping down the search options and searching by date, e.g. within 2 weeks of {date}.
before:2012/12/31 after:2012/1/1 search terms
There is no between filter - see the ...
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Labs are experiments that sometimes graduate and become part of the main project, and sometimes don't. This would appear to be one of the latter.
When a Lab is removed there's generally no announcement about it, it simply stops working. Why? I don't know. Probably because not many people were using it.
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See the official Gmail Blog
We’ll be implementing the instant results feature for Google Apps
customers in late-2015 or early 2016*. With this improved experience
on the horizon, we’ll be ending the Apps Search lab experiment, which
is unstable and provides lower quality results. It will be removed
from Gmail Labs and the Advanced Labs Management ...
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You can also use Google Scripts to search for partial matches in Gmail. The script extracts the message body and performs the regex search.
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In the search bar at the top enter from:"email address"/
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