Wow... I was about to say how GMail has no search for unlabeled messages,
but your post made me go look it up, and there is now. Awesome.
That said... you're falling victim to the classic problem of the way search
works, and the way it displays results. Search works on individual
messages, but typically it displays conversations. And it shows the labels
applied to the conversation. The product forum posts I've read about this
new search term, for your type of results, you want to turn off
conversation view. That way, it displays the individual messages that your
search is applied to.
Also, you would want OR more instead of the AND that you currently have.
Try this one to see if the results are closer to what you're looking for:
"has:nouserlabels -in:{inbox draft sent}" {} means, OR these terms
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:24 PM, glbkxbx <[email protected]> wrote:
> I find gmail's label/tag system highly confusing.
> There's this email that i can find using a simple text search, but it has
> no labels attached to it, and as far as i know it has no system labels
> attached to it either (i've double checked the "folders" manually just to
> be sure).
> Where is unlabeled mails supposed to be anyway? And this "All Mail" folder
> that is supposedly all my emails no matter what label has perhaps 20 mails
> in it (there's at least 200+ conversations in this account) - so what good
> is it for?
> I've tried combinations of advanced search techniques such as:
> *has:nouserlabels
> -in:Inbox -in:Draft -in:Sent* (which doesn't seem to work very well btw
> since it does indeed show items from things it explicitly shouldn't, such
> as the inbox).
> This is all using the standard web interface btw.
>
> Appreciate any help you can give me guys. I can'αΊ— stand when things don't
> make sense to me.
>
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