Gmail has some cool features and Search Mail is just one of them. This tool is another way to use Gmail as a power user. The mail search is blessed with some great operators, which will certainly increase your efficiency in dealing with e-mails.
Here are some useful Gmail search operators :
- from: Used to search mails from a particular sender, example – from:manish
- to: Used to search mails from a particular recipient only, example – to:amit
- subject: Search for words in the subject line, example – subject:Adsense
- OR Search for messages matching term A OR term B, example- to:ravi OR from:manish
- after: before: Search for messages sent during a certain period of time. example- after:2009/03/11 before:200/03/14
- filename: Search for an attachment by name or type, example- filename:pdf, filename:bill022009.doc
- - (hyphen) : Used to exclude messages from your search, example- airtel -bill. This will result all mails having the word “airtel” and not having “bill“.
- label: for searching mails with a particular label, example- label:work
- in: and is: in: is used for looking into inbox, trash and spam, while is: is used for starred, unread & read. Example- in:inbox, is:read.
These operators can be used together in order to get more accurate results. Hence, from:manish label:action filename:post.doc is a valid query.
Moreover, these operators can also be used to set up filters for incoming mails. Hence, you can reduce the inbox load easily.
See Also : Using Advanced search : More search operators
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