Now a days on normal every one are having more then 1000 e-mails in their box and it some times becomes difficult to search for a particular message, but if you are using GMAIL then its not a problem for you anymore. So today I will show you some cool tricks which will make your search easy and enjoyable.
So here goes the tricks:
from:
Typing from: operator along with the Email-ID give only those results which are received from the specified email address.
Example:- from: xyz@abc.net
to:
Typing to: operator along with the Email-ID will help you to find all those Emails messages that you have sent to the specified email address.
Example:- to: from: xyz@abc.net
subject:
This will match your query with the subject of all Email messages that you have sent/received.
Example:- subject:”Introduction”
This will also work if you don’t apply these double quotes with your subject as double quotes are used only to increases the relevancy of results.
label:
This will search the Email messages to which you have applied a particular labels.
Example:- label:Google
has:attachment
This query will show only those Email Messages which contains one or more attachment files with them.
in:
After typing the in: operator just give the label name (in:spam) this will show all those Email messages which are present in that particular label but if you don’t know the label name then just type in:anywhere this will show Emails from all labels contain.
is:
This operator shows only those Email messages that you have Read, Unread or marked as Starred.
Example:- is:unread
before:
This will show all those Email messages that you had received before a particular date. The date you are mentioning should be in yyyy/mm/dd format.
Example:- before:2011/10/30
after:
This will show all those Email messages that you had received after a particular date. The date you are mentioning should be in yyyy/mm/dd format.
Example:- after:2011/12/09
If you have been getting crazy while searching emails then use these operators.This will surely make the task bit easier.Also some of these tricks works as well in other email providers like hotmail.
So here goes the tricks:
from:
Typing from: operator along with the Email-ID give only those results which are received from the specified email address.
Example:- from: xyz@abc.net
to:
Typing to: operator along with the Email-ID will help you to find all those Emails messages that you have sent to the specified email address.
Example:- to: from: xyz@abc.net
subject:
This will match your query with the subject of all Email messages that you have sent/received.
Example:- subject:”Introduction”
This will also work if you don’t apply these double quotes with your subject as double quotes are used only to increases the relevancy of results.
label:
This will search the Email messages to which you have applied a particular labels.
Example:- label:Google
has:attachment
This query will show only those Email Messages which contains one or more attachment files with them.
in:
After typing the in: operator just give the label name (in:spam) this will show all those Email messages which are present in that particular label but if you don’t know the label name then just type in:anywhere this will show Emails from all labels contain.
is:
This operator shows only those Email messages that you have Read, Unread or marked as Starred.
Example:- is:unread
before:
This will show all those Email messages that you had received before a particular date. The date you are mentioning should be in yyyy/mm/dd format.
Example:- before:2011/10/30
after:
This will show all those Email messages that you had received after a particular date. The date you are mentioning should be in yyyy/mm/dd format.
Example:- after:2011/12/09
If you have been getting crazy while searching emails then use these operators.This will surely make the task bit easier.Also some of these tricks works as well in other email providers like hotmail.
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