Are you having trouble finding old emails from a specific time period? In this guide, we have tips for searching Gmail by date range or time period.
Over time, our Gmail account gets cluttered with new emails, subscriptions, and many other emails. Many important emails are buried under new emails. You may not find the time to clean up your Gmail account and delete those useless emails, it will go beyond thousands of emails. When you want to find one or more emails in a certain period of time, it takes a lot of time to go through the thousands of emails. We have some time-saving tips. Let's see how to find emails by date or by period.
How to Search Gmail by Date Range or Period
There are different ways to search for an email in Gmail using the date.
- Before a certain date
- After a certain date
- Between two dates
- Keywords with dates
- Older than or Newer than
Let's go into the details of each option. Before going into details, remember that the date format must be YYYY/MM/DD or Year/Month/Day.
1]Before a certain date
In the Gmail search bar, type before with a colon ( : ) after that. Do not forget to enter the colon. Then enter the date before which you want to find the emails.
The format to search for emails before a certain date would be: before: YYYY/MM/DD
2]After a certain date
To find emails after a certain date in Gmail, you need to enter after with a colon ( : ) after that and the date in the specified format.
The format to find emails after a certain date would be after: YYYY/MM/DD
3]Between two dates
To find emails between two dates in Gmail, you need to enter the before and after formats in the Gmail search bar.
The correct format would be after: YYYY/MM/DD before: YYYY/MM/DD . You can use the before date first, then the after date as well. There is no specified rule for using it.
4]Keywords with dates
You can search for emails before a date, after a date, between two dates, etc. To find emails specified in these date formats, you can use a keyword that you remember with the dates.
Along with dates and keywords, you can also search for emails older or newer than a certain time, such as a year, month, or day. We use y for a year, m for a month, and d for a day.
To search for emails before or after or between two days over a month, the correct format would be to enter more than: 1m after entering the dates. Similarly, you can use the newer than function.
You can also use dates, keywords, and older than or newer than together in a search.
How do I search Gmail for old emails by date?
There are some methods you can use to search for emails in your Gmail account by date. You can search for emails before, after, between, newer than, older than or using keywords with all date options.
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How long does Gmail keep emails?
Gmail keeps all emails in your inbox by default. Only emails in Trash and Spam folders are deleted after 30 days. Other than that, every email you have on Gmail will stay forever.
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