You can use words or symbols called search operators to filter your Gmail search results. You can also combine operators to filter your results even more.
Use a search operator
- On your computer, go to Gmail .
- At the top, click the search box.
- Enter a search operator.
Tips:
- After you search, you can use the results to set up a filter for these messages .
- When using numbers as part of your query, a space or a dash (-) will separate a number while a dot (.) will be a decimal. For example, 01.2047-100 is considered 2 numbers: 01.2047 and 100.
from:
Find emails sent from a specific person.
from:me
from:amy@example.com
to:
Find emails sent to a specific person.
to:me
to:john@example.com
cc:
bcc:
Find emails that include specific people in the "Cc" or "Bcc" fields.
cc:john@example.com
bcc:david@example.com
subject:
Find emails by a word or phrase in the subject line.
subject:dinner
subject:anniversary party
after:
before:
older:
newer:
Search for emails received during a certain time period.
after:2004/04/16
after:04/16/2004
before:2004/04/18
before:04/18/2004
older_than:
newer_than:
Search for emails older or newer than a time period. Use d
(day), m
(month), or y
(year).
older_than:1y
newer_than:2d
OR
or
{ }
Find emails that match one or more of your search criteria.
from:amy OR from:david
{from:amy from:david}
AND
Find emails that match all of your search criteria.
from:amy AND to:david
-
Exclude emails from your search criteria.
dinner -movie
AROUND
Find emails with words near each other. Use the number to say how many words apart the words can be.
Add quotes to find messages in which the word you put first stays first.
holiday AROUND 10 vacation
"secret AROUND 25 birthday"
label:
Find emails under one of your labels.
label:friends
label:important
category:
If you use inbox categories, find emails under one of the categories.
category:primary
category:social
category:promotions
category:updates
category:forums
category:reservations
category:purchases
has:
Find emails that include:
- Attachments
- Inline images
- YouTube videos
- Drive files
- Google Docs
- Google Sheets
- Google Slides
has:attachment
has:youtube
has:drive
has:document
has:spreadsheet
has:presentation
list:
Find emails from a mailing list.
list:info@example.com
filename:
Find emails that have attachments with a certain name or file type.
filename:pdf
filename:homework.txt
" "
Search for emails with an exact word or phrase.
"dinner and movie tonight"
( )
Group multiple search terms together.
subject:(dinner movie)
in:anywhere
Find emails across Gmail. This includes emails in Spam and Trash.
in:anywhere movie
in:archive
Search for archived messages.
in:archive payment reminder
in:snoozed
Find emails that you snoozed.
in:snoozed birthday reminder
is:muted
Find emails that you muted.
is:muted subject:team celebration
is:
Search for emails by their status:
- Important
- Starred
- Unread
- Read
is:important
is:starred
is:unread
is:read
has:yellow-star
has:orange-star
has:red-star
has:purple-star
has:blue-star
has:green-star
has:red-bang
has:orange-guillemet
has:yellow-bang
has:green-check
has:blue-info
has:purple-question
If you set up different star options, you can search for emails under a star option. Learn how to star emails in Gmail .
has:yellow-star OR has:purple-question
deliveredto:
Find emails delivered to a specific email address.
deliveredto:username@example.com
size:
larger:
smaller:
Find emails by their size.
size:1000000
larger:10M
+
Find emails that match a word exactly.
+unicorn
rfc822msgid
Find emails with a specific message-id header.
rfc822msgid:200503292@example.com
has:userlabels
has:nouserlabels
Find emails that have or don't have a label. Labels are only added to a message, and not an entire conversation.
has:userlabels
has:nouserlabels
label:encryptedmail
Find emails sent with Client-side encryption.
label:encryptedmail
