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Excluding messages with a given label is ignored if other messges in the conversation lack the label
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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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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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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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 to create a filter with bcc or cc
Yes you can.
You will need to add your email address on the Includes the words field
Includes the words cc:[email protected]
You can even include both bcc and cc in just one filter:
(bcc:example@...
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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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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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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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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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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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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:inbox is:read' does not work?
I found the answer.
In order to do it - you need to search
(NOT is:unread) in:inbox
This solve the problem while if is one messages that is unread in thread, the thread not will be in the result.
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Excluding messages with a given label is ignored if other messges in the conversation lack the label
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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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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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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Gmail bulk Emails manipulation
Try the following script
/**
* Creates the first trigger to call batchArchiveEmail.
*/
function init(){
ScriptApp
.newTrigger('batchArchiveEmail')
.timeBased()
.after(60 * 1000)
....
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Searching Gmail messages while excluding the reply history?
You might be able to do something with the negation filter. Many (most?) email clients add something like "Re:" or "Fw:" to the subject when replying or forwarding a message.
So perhaps something ...
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Gmail search for unstarred emails in a label
What you have tried should work. Although "officially" you should use the label: operator to search within a label, and labels are not case-sensitive. So, the following should also work:
label:test -...
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How to use OR operator in Gmail
The example in the Google docs is of the form:
from:amy OR from:david
So, I would certainly go with your 2nd version. However, I think it might be getting confused by the spaces (ordinarily a ...
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Wildcard search in Gmail
I know it's not the most straightforward solution, but with Mozilla Thunderbird asterisk wildcard will work. For example, searching *top* will find anything containing partially or totally that string,...
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How to search Gmail for messages sent TO a specific person, that they never replied back?
In Gmail I was able to use this search:
"to:(specific person's email address) -from:(specific person's email address) from:me"
This found messages sent to a particular person with no replies from ...
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Find a Gmail attachment by size
Unfortunately, there's no search filter for attachment size (though that would make a good feature request).
The closest you'll likely be able to get is to use several search parameters to try to ...
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Search 'in:inbox is:read' does not work?
It works as designed. It is showing you all conversations that have one or more read messages. If you want to only see the messages that have been read then you will have to disable conversations.
...
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How to use complex filtering queries in Gmail?
Is this a real string to be pasted somewhere into Gmail (where?) or a pseudo-code to explain filter settings that need to be applied?
It's a real thing and you are supposed to use it (just a part of ...
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Sort Gmail *search results* oldest first
That option doesn't sort. When it is available it allows you to jump to the last page of search results.
I find that the option is valuable when the search is simple, you are getting all the messages ...
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How to show all messages with any label in Gmail?
Gmail has user created labels and system labels. inbox is one of the system labels.
To search for email with
user created labels use: has:userlabels
user created labels or inbox label use: has:...
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Gmail search by filetype is failing
According to support.google.com, the proper syntax is:
filename:zip
That worked for me, it returns all results since my Gmail account was created in 2007.
From support.google.com:
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Gmail email search filter is not working correctly
Thanks for your answer, actually, the issue is that there was a missing text "category:" in front of "Promotions". Without it, it was looking for inbox mails with a text "promotions" and applying the ...
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