{"id":3382,"date":"2018-09-11T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2018-09-20T00:11:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T00:11:23","slug":"how-to-search-your-gmail-account-like-a-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/how-to-search-your-gmail-account-like-a-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"How to search your Gmail account like a boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When you start sending mass emails\u00a0from your Gmail account, you’ll have many more emails filed in your Sent Mail <\/strong>folder than you’re used to. For users who are inexperienced with\u00a0narrowing Gmail’s search results, having many additional emails in the Sent Mail folder<\/strong>\u00a0can feel overwhelming.\u00a0Google has published an extensive guide to all of\u00a0Gmail’s search features<\/a>, but this guide teaches you how to search specifically when you’re sending campaigns with GMass.<\/p>\n

So today I’m going to show you how to search your Gmail <\/strong>account for sent messages like a boss, neatly sidestepping the great mass of\u00a0GMass-generated emails and zeroing in on just what you want. The Sent Mail <\/strong>folder really shouldn’t be something one “browses” anyway, but should be seen merely as a record of what you have sent. So, I hope this post is helpful on your way to being both a Gmail<\/strong> and GMass<\/strong>\u00a0search expert.<\/p>\n

Example 1: Filtering out a GMass campaign\u00a0from the Sent Mail folder<\/h3>\n

Let’s imagine you’ve recently sent out a\u00a0<\/b>mail merge<\/a> campaign with an email that has a Subject <\/strong>line of “Sale this weekend”–and you’ve sent it to 10,000 people. Due to this, you’re now going to have a copy of each of those 10,000 emails in your Sent Mail <\/strong>folder. But if you want to see everything you’ve sent\u00a0except\u00a0<\/em>for your campaign, you can filter all of them out of your results with this simple line in the Gmail Search b<\/strong>ar:<\/p>\n

in:sent -subject:\"Sale this weekend\"\r\n<\/pre>\n
Like this:<\/p>\n
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That line is part of the syntax of Gmail’s filtering, and it tells Gmail to search for everything in your Sent Mail<\/strong> folder that has a Subject<\/strong> line that is\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>“Sale this weekend”. The key to this is that minus sign<\/strong> right before the word “subject”. Minus signs in Gmail (and in Google searches<\/strong>, as well) tell the search engine to leave out that search term.<\/p>\n
Example 2: Did that person get my email?<\/h3>\n
If you want proof that a campaign was sent to a particular person, you would use this search:<\/p>\n
in:sent to:email@domain.com<\/pre>\n
For example, this search, followed by clicking the magnifying glass to the left of the search field, produced these three emails sent to Jack Lovich:<\/p>\n
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A search for emails sent to a particular recipient.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Example 3: Did that person open or click my email?<\/h3>\n
Because GMass writes all open\/click events to the GMass Reports–>Opens <\/strong>and GMass Reports–>Clicks Labels folder<\/strong>, if you quickly want to see if somebody opened or clicked an email campaign, you can use this sort of search criteria:<\/p>\n
label:gmass-reports-opens email@domain.com<\/pre>\n
Like so, using a person’s actual email address:<\/p>\n
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A search for occasions when a particular user opened a GMass email campaign.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Example 4: Did my email to that person bounce?<\/h3>\n
With GMass, it is useful to occasionally check your bounced emails\u00a0Label to see which emails that you sent through a GMass campaign did not actually make it to their intended recipients–that is, they “bounced”.<\/p>\n
Use this search query:<\/p>\n
label:gmass-reports-bounces<\/pre>\n
This will bring up all the bounced emails:<\/p>\n
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Showing a search to display all bounced emails.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Checking your bounced emails is important in carrying out GMass campaigns, because this will let you know who didn’t get an email that you expected should have. When that occurs and isn’t caught by you, that’s a wasted opportunity for a sale or notification!<\/p>\n
Another way to see this “folder” (it’s really a\u00a0Gmail Label) is to, of course, click on the Bounces\u00a0<\/strong>Label\u00a0on the left side of your Gmail screen:<\/p>\n
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The GMass Bounces label (highlighted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
And, of course, you can click on any of those\u00a0Labels<\/strong>\u00a0and see which emails are filed there, such as “Opens” or “GMass Auto Followup”. The nice thing about searching in the search bar, though, is you can create arbitrarily complex searches. For example, you could choose to search for any emails that fulfill\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>of these criteria:<\/p>\n