How to Search by Date in Gmail
How to Search by Date in Gmail 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. 1 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. 2 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." 3 Search before a certain date. You can probably guess this already, but the search "before:YYY...