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Exclude label from a Gmail search?
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 ...
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Wildcard search in Gmail
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-...
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Disable Gmail's highlighting of the search query in the email's body
The option to disable the highlighting ("Turn off highlighting") is located in the "More" menu (indicated with three vertical dots: "⋮") between the search box and the ...
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Exclude label from a Gmail search?
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 ...
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Is it possible to query Gmail messages by timestamp?
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 ...
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Search Gmail for emails without any CC recipients
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|...
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Gmail search for unstarred emails in a label
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 ...
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Gmail Search Operator for general "today"
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 ...
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How to find the oldest email in Gmail
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 ...
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Search in Gmail - How to search the mails without reply?
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:/...
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How can I find email messages older than 10 years in Gmail?
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 ...
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Disable Gmail's highlighting of the search query in the email's body
With the most recent Gmail UI, the menu item has changed to an icon which you never would guess toggled highlighting until you actually hover over it to get the help text. It's in the top-right corner ...
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How do I limit search to a folder in Gmail?
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:...
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How to find the first mail of every contact within Gmail
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://...
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Gmail inbox, all messages archived by mistake
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, ...
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Google Drive files not showing in Gmail search results
It is a Labs feature:
I don't know why it was turned off...
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Add an artificial "label" in the Gmail label list?
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 ...
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Can you define "me" in Gmail search?
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 ...
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How to search for email of a particular date from years ago in Gmail
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 ...
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Google Drive files not showing in Gmail search results (Apps search feature disappeared)
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 ...
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Google Drive files not showing in Gmail search results (Apps search feature disappeared)
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 ...
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How to search for a part of a word in Gmail?
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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Search in Gmail - How to search the mails without reply?
None of the previous answers worked for me. Searching for -subject:re and equivalents seem to match EVERY conversation. I believe this is because that search is positive for the first message in the ...
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How to filter empty drafts in Gmail?
Short answer
AFAIK it's not possible that Gmail search return only empty messages when you are searching them by size.
Alternatives
Look for the messages that returns [in:draft smaller:513] to try to ...
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How can I search for an attachment by filename pattern?
Gmail doesn't recognize special search characters like [ ], ( ), &, #, *, and currency symbols. You can't use this symbols trying to search email or attachments.
On the other hand, Google ...
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Exclude label from a Gmail search?
As was already explained in the question, filters apply labels to individual incoming messages, so a conversation could have messages with and without the label that the user is looking to exclude ...
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How to find the first mail of every contact within Gmail
I extended the correct answer by getting the subject too.
Since we have the whole message object now, one can easily extend that to get all infos out of a mail.
This version has the subject with a ...
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