Easy Trick to Search Mails Easily in Gmail

Suppose you have thousands of emails in your Gmail account. You have to search for a particular mail using the search option but if don't know exactly which email then how you are going to search it?! By using this simple trick you can easily narrow down your email search result.

Here is how it is to be done:
Gmail supports a number of operators that helps you to search your emails.

• from: using this operator along with an email address give the result of those email that are from the specified email address. Example: from:admin@easytricksandtips.tk
• to: using this operator along with an email address give the result of those email that have sent to the specified email address. Example: to:admin@easytricksandtips.tk
• subject: This will search your emails for the subject of all Email messages that you have sent/received. Example: subject:easy tricks and tips 
• label: This will search your Email messages to which you have given a particular label. Example: label:Private 
• has: This operator will show only those Email Messages which contains attachment.  Example: has:attachment 
• in: After typing the in: operator just give the label name. This will show all those Email messages which are present in that particular label. Example: in:sent
  or, in:anywhere (If you don't know the label.) 
• is: This operator shows Email messages according to the state of the messages. Example: is:unread or is:read or, is:starred 
• before: This will show all the Email messages that are received before a particular date that you have specified. The date format must be: yyyy/mm/dd. Example: before:2011/10/02
• after: This will show all the Email messages that are received after a particular date that you have specified. The date format must be: yyyy/mm/dd. Example: after:2011/10/02   

Using this operators will definitely make your searching much easier. Enjoy.