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11-15-2012, 02:21 PM
New Gmail Search Operators
Gmail added a lot of new search operators (http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190). **w you can finally filter messages by size, find old messages and mail that has ** label.
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Here are the new operators:
- size: lets you "search for messages larger than the specified size in bytes". For example, search for [size:512000 (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/size%3A512000)] to find messages larger than 500 KB (1 KB = 1024 bytes). It's important to **te that MIME encoding adds 33% overhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_attachment), so you may find a message that only includes a 400 KB attachment when you search for [size:512000].
- larger:, smaller: are similar to size:, but they allow abbreviations like K, M for KB, MB. Some examples: [smaller:1M (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/size%3A1M)] (messages smaller than 1MB), [larger:500K (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/size%3A500K)] (messages larger than 500KB). You can also use larger_than: and smaller_than.
- older_than, newer_than are great for restricting Gmail results to recent or old messages. They allow to find messages older than 2 years (older_than:2y (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/older_than%3A2y)), older than 5 months (older_than:5m (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/older_than%3A5m)), but also messages sent within the past month (newer_than:1m (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/newer_than%3A1m)) or the past 3 days (newer_than:3d (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/older_than%3A3d)).
- has:userlabels, has:**userlabels are useful for finding messages that have or lack user-defined labels. Obviously, this excludes system labels like spam, chat, inbox, allmail and smart labels. You'll probably see a lot of conversations that have user-defined labels when you search for [has:**userlabels] and that's because "Gmail applies labels to individual messages. In this case, a**ther message in the same conversation thread has had a label applied to it."
- + (plus sign) added before a word excludes messages that match related words. For example, when you search for [engineers], Gmail also shows messages that include the word "engineer". Change your query to [+engineers] and you'll only find messages that match the search term exactly. This operator used to be available in Google search, but it's **w used for Google+ results and you need to use quotes for exact matches.
- rfc822msgid: is a more advanced operator that lets you find a message by the message-id header (http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn29/headers.html).
**w Gmail users who hit the storage limit (http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6558) can finally find the messages that have large attachments and delete them. They can search for [larger:5M], [larger:10M] or [larger:10M older_than:2y] and quickly delete the messages that are ** longer useful.
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Gmail added a lot of new search operators (http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190). **w you can finally filter messages by size, find old messages and mail that has ** label.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t27dTNa_wxo/UKTKN95BrdI/AAAAAAABGn8/JHksCSu7lWk/s640/gmail-new-operators.png
Here are the new operators:
- size: lets you "search for messages larger than the specified size in bytes". For example, search for [size:512000 (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/size%3A512000)] to find messages larger than 500 KB (1 KB = 1024 bytes). It's important to **te that MIME encoding adds 33% overhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_attachment), so you may find a message that only includes a 400 KB attachment when you search for [size:512000].
- larger:, smaller: are similar to size:, but they allow abbreviations like K, M for KB, MB. Some examples: [smaller:1M (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/size%3A1M)] (messages smaller than 1MB), [larger:500K (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/size%3A500K)] (messages larger than 500KB). You can also use larger_than: and smaller_than.
- older_than, newer_than are great for restricting Gmail results to recent or old messages. They allow to find messages older than 2 years (older_than:2y (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/older_than%3A2y)), older than 5 months (older_than:5m (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/older_than%3A5m)), but also messages sent within the past month (newer_than:1m (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/newer_than%3A1m)) or the past 3 days (newer_than:3d (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/older_than%3A3d)).
- has:userlabels, has:**userlabels are useful for finding messages that have or lack user-defined labels. Obviously, this excludes system labels like spam, chat, inbox, allmail and smart labels. You'll probably see a lot of conversations that have user-defined labels when you search for [has:**userlabels] and that's because "Gmail applies labels to individual messages. In this case, a**ther message in the same conversation thread has had a label applied to it."
- + (plus sign) added before a word excludes messages that match related words. For example, when you search for [engineers], Gmail also shows messages that include the word "engineer". Change your query to [+engineers] and you'll only find messages that match the search term exactly. This operator used to be available in Google search, but it's **w used for Google+ results and you need to use quotes for exact matches.
- rfc822msgid: is a more advanced operator that lets you find a message by the message-id header (http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn29/headers.html).
**w Gmail users who hit the storage limit (http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6558) can finally find the messages that have large attachments and delete them. They can search for [larger:5M], [larger:10M] or [larger:10M older_than:2y] and quickly delete the messages that are ** longer useful.
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