Tricks for searching mails in gmail

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Gmail is the most commonly used email service used now.Google provided an excellent search bar in the gmail for the easy navigation of emails.

Following are the gmail search tricks which make your search in gmail Pro ...

+ Extract all the mails received from specific email address :
FROM: xyz@gmail.com OR xyz@yahoo.com OR xyz@hotmail.com

+ If you are not concerned about the mail services like yahoo.com or gmail.com,then ignore the text after @. i.e
FROM: xyz@ OR abc@ OR xyz@hotmail.com

+ Extract the mails based on your subject :
SUBJECT: genelia OR hasini

This search all the mails having subject genelia or hasini

+ Extract mails which have the word or set of words :
HAS THE WORDS : genelia

This search all the mails having words genelia and Kumar

+ Extract mails which doesnt have the word or set of words :
DOESN'T HAVE: spam

This search all the mails which doesnt have the word spam

+ Get the chat history of all starred mails :
label:chats label:starred

+ Get all the unread mails in spam folder :
label:spam label:unread

+ Get all the starred mails :
label:starred

+ Get all the opened mails :
label:read

+ Get all the unread mails present in inbox :
label:inbox label:unread

+ Get all the unread mails in all inbox, spam, draft etc :
label:All Mail label:unread label:starred

+ Get all the starred and unread mails under the particular label.If you want to get all the unread and starred mails having label kumar, enter the following in search box :
label:kumar label:unread label:starred

+ Get all the mails sent between particular dates :
after:2009/01/01 before:2009/01/25

This gives all the mails sent between 2009/01/1 and 2009/01/25 (date format : yyyy/mm/dd )

+ Get all the chat messages having a particular word :
is:chat genelia

This gives all the chat messages having the word genelia

+ Email that were cc-ed to kumar
cc:kumar

+ Email that were bcc-ed to kumar
bcc:kumar

+ Search for messages in a particular language :
lang:french

This returns all emails that contain at least un peu de Français.

+ Search all the mails having files attached to them :
has:attachment

+ Search for messages sent after a date :
after:2009/01/25

+ Search for messages sent before a date :
before:2009/01/25

+ Exclude chat session logs from search results.Add the following to your search string : -label:Chat

+ Search the word included only in chat session logs :
+label:Chat
Friends .. if i had missed any trick, please share it in the comments .. and share your experience.. Enjoy .. !!

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