Search by Date in Gmail
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If you're looking for an email or chat from a certain date in your Gmail archives, follow this simple search technique. If that's not enough, we've thrown in a few more advanced search terms to help you out.
Steps
- Open Gmail search. On a computer browser, the search bar is visible at the top of the screen from any Gmail page. On a mobile device, you may need to touch a magnifying glass icon to open the search bar.
- Search for emails after a certain date. To search for emails after a certain date, type after:YYYY/MM/DD into the search bar, replacing those letters with an actual date. For example, write after:2015/03/29 to search for emails written after March 29th, 2015.
- You can use the word newer instead of "after."
- Search before a certain date. You can probably guess this already, but the search "before:YYYY/MM/DD" will search for everything before the date you write. The word older will work instead of "before," if you prefer.
- Use both terms to narrow down a range. You can use both of the above terms in the same search. For example, after:2015/03/29 before:2015/04/05 will list every message sent after midnight on March 29th, 2015, but before April 5th, 2015.
- Use relative terms. For more recent messages, you don't need to work out the exact date. Use the terms older_than or newer_than instead. Here's how:
- older_than:3d = from more than 3 days ago
- newer_than:2m = from less than 2 months ago
- older_than:12d newer_than:1y = older than 12 days and newer than 1 year
- Add extra terms. You can add ordinary terms to the same search, as well as other advanced search terms. Here are a few examples:
- after:2015/01/01 before:2015/31/12 rock climbing will list every message with the words "rock" and "climbing" from 2015.
- newer_than:5d has:attachment will list all emails with attachments sent within the last 5 days.
- before:2008/04/30 from:Jenna dance will list all emails from before April 30th, 2008, from Jenna, that include the word "dance."
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Warnings
- Do not use a different format for the date. Entering the date with the year at the end instead of the beginning, for example, will show the wrong results.
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Sources and Citations
- https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en — Main research source