So you want to find unlabeled GMail messages.Įasy, right? You just search on has:nouserlabels (see Method 2 below). Maybe you need to clean out a bunch of cruft and your unlabeled email is usually not important. You could now hit the delete button.You want all your GMail messages to have a label, maybe several. If you click on those words all messages in that date range and all pages of those email will all be selected at the same time. I could go through each page and select all and delete, or to make thing easier, Gmail will pop up a message asking if you would like to Select all conversations that match this search. Now my search is telling me that I have 44 pages worth of email that is older than 2010. Once you do that, the selected messages on that page will turn yellow. If you come up with multiple pages of results and you wanted, for example, delete all of those messages (be careful: remember trash is permanently deleted after 30 days in Gmail) you could check off the “select all” box in the upper left. Meaning: Finds messages sent within the last two days.

Similar to older and newer, but allows relative dates using d, m, and y for day, month, and year *More precisely: Messages sent after 12:00 AM (or 00:00) Apand before April 18, 2004. Meaning: Messages sent between Apand April 18, 2004.*

Search for messages sent or received during a certain period of time You can search a date range like the example below. Click the magnifying icon.įor example, if I wanted to get all mail older than 2010, I could type: before:1 Simply type one of the operators below and the date to define your search. The search box is at the top of your Gmail screen. The list can be found here. One of the most powerful ones is to search for messages by date and here is how it is done:

There is a long list of advanced search operators that you can use in Gmail. How do I do a search for mail older than a certain date?

Gmail find files by date