How to look for old emails
Are old emails and ones with large attachments hogging up all your Gmail storage space? Have trouble finding the exact email message you want? Luckily, Google has added more ways to find what you're looking for and, perhaps, clean out those huge emails you no longer need. To find emails larger than a specific size, use the larger: operator with the size of the email and K for KB and M for MB. For example, entering "largerM" will find all emails larger than MB.
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And you know what? I get it, I do. Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated, as I forgot the passwords to some of them. I like it. So, I have good news and bad news. To keep it simple, POP3 downloads messages from the server to your computer or device, whereas IMAP merely synchronizes your messages between your computer or device and the server. Yahoo Mail: 12 months. Gmail: Google previously gave users nine months of inactivity before they could —but not necessarily would —delete the account.
I believe this policy changed sometime around —, and Google now keeps your account active in perpetuity. AOL Mail: days. If you remember the older providers, run wildcard searches for any mail from their domains with your name in it. You can also try searching through your computer s to see if you have any older documents or files with your older email accounts in them.
You might also have saved older logins in whatever password manager you use if any , which could help you remember your older accounts. If you set up some kind of recovery number or alternate email address, you might also be able to use that to help find the name of your forgotten email account—if a provider allows it. Above all else, all of the major email services have various recovery tools you can use to find an older account, assuming it still exists Yahoo , Gmail , AOL , Outlook , et cetera.
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Normally messages are arranged and grouped by date, and the messages that you received one month ago will be grouped in the Older group. However, it is tough to find out email messages that are older than specified time, for example messages older than 3 months. Of course you can sort all email messages by received date, and then get old email messages. But here we will introduce you an easier way to find out and group old email messages, and update the grouping of old email messages every day automatically. Find out old email messages in Outlook.
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This wikiHow teaches you how to search for older or hard-to-find messages in Gmail using a computer, phone, or tablet. You can search your email by date, sender, or message content. Open Gmail. Type "before:date" in the search bar. Press Enter or Return. Click on the email you want to view. Did this summary help you? Yes No. Log in Facebook. No account yet?
And you know what? I get it, I do. Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated, as I forgot the passwords to some of them. I like it. So, I have good news and bad news.
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