Comments on: 10 Useful GMail Search Tips

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:03:00 +0000

Great article but yes – still can’t believe Gmail doesn’t have wildcard/ partial word search

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:48:00 +0000

You can use http://www.findbigmail.com to label your big emails into three groups so that you can go through them and delete all the ones you no longer need. It uses Google’s third party Oauth interface so you do not have to share your password to use it.

By: receive faxes via email

receive faxes via email — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:07:11 +0000

Rafi's comment really helped me out. thanks

By: Josh Price

Josh Price — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:58:16 +0000

I've run a few tests to find out, including things like HTML and bash-type escape codes, but so far it seems to ignore the parentheses no matter what I've tried, sorry.

By: Rafi

Rafi — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:57:41 +0000

Josh, are you aware of a way to search for a text string, including a parentheses? For example, let's say I wanted to search for body text in all emails that included the characters, ” 29(“. It appears that Gmail, by default, ignores the parentheses. Is there a way to get it to search for the parentheses in the text string?

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:40:29 +0000

Thanks, Jim. I was looking for a way to do what Anirudh was looking for and not finding anything beyond the has:attachment filter. Thanks for the info.

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:40:00 +0000

Thanks, Jim. I was looking for a way to do what Anirudh was looking for and not finding anything beyond the has:attachment filter. Thanks for the info.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:28:25 +0000

You can search for mail with attachments (of any size) but the only way I have found to filter / sort based on size is to use an IMAP mail viewer (such as Thunderbird) to view your GMAIL account. You can then choose to display file size of each message and delete the large ones.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:28:00 +0000

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:28:00 +0000

By: Anirudh

Anirudh — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:00:29 +0000

Is there any way to filter (and then, delete) mails with large attachments (say, > 2 MB) to free-up some space? Desperate for an answer as I am now at 96% of the allowed space.

By: Anirudh

Anirudh — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:00:00 +0000

Is there any way to filter (and then, delete) mails with large attachments (say, > 2 MB) to free-up some space? Desperate for an answer as I am now at 96% of the allowed space.

By: Anon Emouse

Anon Emouse — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:53:28 +0000

Quote: “…gives nearly unlimited flexibility when combining complex search…” — ??? “unlimited flexibility” when google can’t even implement wildcard or partial word search for gmail – a KNOWN EXPECTED REQUIRED feature of other non-google apps, products and user interfaces that have been around for more than 10 years. W.T.@#$%.

By: Anon Emouse

Anon Emouse — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:53:00 +0000

By: Anon Emouse

Anon Emouse — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:53:00 +0000

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By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:10:14 +0000

Is it me or can anyone address this? Is there no Wildcard search for gmail. If you search for ex. “maketecheasier” and type in “techeasier” it finds nothing. Type in “*techeasier” you need to type in the full “maketecheasier”

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:10:00 +0000

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