Questions tagged [gmail-search]
Questions specifically about the search functions of Gmail, the email service from Google.
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How can I filter for email messages sent from any mailing list?
In GMail you can create a filter based on a single mailing list:
list:(<some.mailing.list>)
And also for multiple lists:
list:({ <some.mailing.list> <another.mailing.list> })
But, ...
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delete all emails that are neither in the inbox nor sent items gmail
When trying to to search for such emails so I can delete them, I've tried
-in:inbox -in:sent
and also
-in:inbox -from:me
These queries look to be right from what I've read online, but they both ...
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Is it possible to search in gmail for specific message header content? [duplicate]
I know Gmail has expanded the list of search options to allow a search for specific message IDs; however, I have not discovered a way to search for specific message header content. For example, I want ...
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Gmail filters for "-in" not working as expected
I'm trying to filter my Gmail inbox for all messages that are not a part of a starred conversation. If I search just for -in:starred and start combing through the first few pages of results, ...
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Gmail filter not finding message containing partial string [duplicate]
I'm trying to filter emails from PayPal so that certain Notification of payment received messages get forwarded when the transaction's description field (in the message body) contains a specific ...
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Why does do similar queries return different email results in Gmail search? [duplicate]
Why does searching in Gmail for "from:([email protected] AND eats) OR [email protected] OR ([email protected] AND eats)" return results that match "from:([email protected] AND -eats)" ...
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Gmail search by filetype is failing
I am trying to filter gmail searches using filename[filetype] syntax, specifically for .zip and .jar files.
When I try filetype:zip, for example, I am able to see exactly 6 results, which all include ....
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Need to sort/search by language in GMail [closed]
Because someone w/ the same name has used wrong email address, I constantly get spam emails in non-English languages.
If I could sort/search them, I could bulk-delete/bulk-spam them to clear out my ...
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How to search/filter with keyword that match all given characters? [duplicate]
I want to create a filter to add a label to all emails that mention me in other apps like Jira, Bitbucket, etc.
Based on Official Gmail Documentation, it says to search for an exact word or phrase ...
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Retrieve emails associated with account
I have some emails received from and sent to a specific email address that I deleted from my inbox.
I now need access to them (and their attachments) but am surprisingly not seeing them in my
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GMail wildcard searching
I am getting a lot of spam e-mail that would be easy to filter if I could figure out if GMail supports wildcards in searching and filtering. Alot of spam is addressed or CCd the same kind of e-mail ...
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How can I move archived emails to my inbox from a bulk-selected search result
With the intention of moving certain groups back after seeing the through the clutter, I archived all unread emails that had a user label (label:unread has:userlabels).
But now, when I bulk-select the ...
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How can I filter for only emails sent by me with no recipients except myself in a gmail search if I also have myself autoBCCD on ALLof my sent emails?
This has been a bit of a doosy for me. I have my IOS devices set to auto-bcc myself on all of my sent emails so they populate in my inbox. Because of this, I began using the subject line of my emails ...
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How do I filter out emails which were not sent to me?
Somehow I've started getting a lot of spam messages that aren't actually sent to me. The to field will usually be a couple of AOL addresses. I would like to filter these out but can't make a universal ...
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Gmail search operators not returning expected results
I'm trying to filter out unread messages that are not in my inbox, and thought that -in:inbox in:unread should be sufficient. However, this is returning some (but not all) emails that are in my inbox....
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