Is it possible to search mail for strings?

Question

Is it possible to perform advanced searching on the native iPhone Gmail client? Search for mail containing "some string" or mail sent by, from?

gentmatt · Answer 1 · 2012-03-30 20:51:43Z

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Yes, yes it can.

You can do any search that gmail supports:

from:myemail@mydomain.com "searchtime" produced the following search results (which are correct):

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Examples of what you can do:

subject:(Search Term)

To exclude a term you can do:

-Windows

And pretty much anything normal Gmail supports.

gentmatt
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answered Mar 30 at 20:49

jrg
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	This is an iPod UI. I see no search magnifying glass icon on the iPhone. So unless I missed something, the answer does not help. – P.Brian.Mackey Apr 9 at 2:09
	@P.Brian.Mackey Interesting, I'll need to check on my Mom's iPhone and update my answer. – jrg Apr 9 at 12:01

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