Or maybe you remember the email you want is within the past year.
Or maybe just a few months ago.
Perhaps you want to review them.
Or even remove them to clear up space in your Gmail account.
Here's a Cool Tip: Use these special search operators to find them.
Here's how:
- Go to gmail.com
- To find email messages older than or newer than 1 year.
- Click in the search bar
- Enter older_than:1y or newer_than:1y
- Note: You can also enter other search words after the older_than:1y operator.
- For example, older_than:1y Google or newer_than:1y Google
- This will return emails older (or newer) than 1 year that contain the word Google.
Pro Cool Tips:
- Change the 1 to any number to go even further back for older_than:1y or newer with newer_than:1y.
- Change the y to m to look at months instead of years
- And you can change the y to d to look at days instead of years
But wait, there's more!
Click the search setting icon to the right of the search box to bring up even more advanced search options.
And finally, Gmail has many other search operators you can use to find your important emails.
Check them out!
| What you can search by | Search operator & example |
|---|---|
| Specify the sender |
Example: |
| Specify a recipient |
Example: |
| Specify a recipient who received a copy |
Example: |
| Words in the subject line |
Example: |
| Messages that match multiple terms |
Example: Example: |
| Remove messages from your results |
Example: |
Find messages with words near each other. Use the number to say how many words apart the words can be Add quotes to find messages in which the word you put first stays first. |
Example: Example: |
| Messages that have a certain label |
Example: |
| Messages that have an attachment |
Example: |
| Messages that have a Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides attachment or link |
Example: |
| Messages that have a YouTube video |
Example: |
| Messages from a mailing list |
Example: |
| Attachments with a certain name or file type |
Example: Example: |
| Search for an exact word or phrase |
Example: |
| Group multiple search terms together |
Example: |
| Messages in any folder, including Spam and Trash |
Example: |
| Search for messages that are marked as important |
Example:
|
Starred, snoozed, unread, or read messages |
Example: |
| Messages that include an icon of a certain color |
Example: |
| Recipients in the cc or bcc field |
Example: Note: You can't find messages that you received on bcc. |
| Search for messages sent during a certain time period |
Example: Example: Example: Example: |
| Search for messages older or newer than a time period using d (day), m (month), and y (year) |
Example: |
| Search by email for delivered messages |
Example: |
| Messages in a certain category |
Example: category:updates |
| Messages larger than a certain size in bytes |
Example: |
| Messages larger or smaller than a certain size in bytes |
Example: |
| Results that match a word exactly |
Example: |
| Messages with a certain message-id header |
Example: |
| Messages that have or don't have a label |
Example: Note: Labels are only added to a message, and not an entire conversation. |
Note: When using numbers as part of your query, a space or a dash (-) will separate a number while a dot (.) will be a decimal. For example, 01.2047-100 is considered 2 numbers: 01.2047 and 100.
Source: Gmail.com
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