Find Your Oldest Messages in Gmail
At some point in the past, Google removed the Oldest » link out of everything except for your inbox and labels. This makes it hard to find the “first” or an early email of any sort if you have a lot in your search result. I wanted to find an email of which I had a lot of, to see what was the first one, of 10000s. Fortunately there is a workaround for this!
Updated 4/11/2010!
There is a simple URL you can visit to get to the last page of all of your messages. This will show you the first message you ever got in Gmail, and when you signed up for Gmail. Simply visit:
https://mail.google.com/mail/#search//p99999
This will return an error, then send you to the last page of all of your messages, inbox and archived.
Thanks to commenter Josh for this tip!
1. Perform your search.
To search all archived messages and not just the inbox, do a blank search.
2. At the top of the url, add /p9999 or other sufficiently large number to go beyond the last result.
Gmail will show you an error and not display any messages.
3. Click “Refresh” – you will end up at the last page of the search result.
If anyone has an idea how to do this in an easier, less complicated way, please let me know in comments! I would hope that Google will add a sorting function to Gmail, bringing the oldest message at top, but I guess there is not a lot of demand for that.
http://systembash.com/content/find-your-oldest-messages-in-gmail/
At some point in the past, Google removed the Oldest » link out of everything except for your inbox and labels. This makes it hard to find the “first” or an early email of any sort if you have a lot in your search result. I wanted to find an email of which I had a lot of, to see what was the first one, of 10000s. Fortunately there is a workaround for this!
Updated 4/11/2010!
There is a simple URL you can visit to get to the last page of all of your messages. This will show you the first message you ever got in Gmail, and when you signed up for Gmail. Simply visit:
https://mail.google.com/mail/#search//p99999
This will return an error, then send you to the last page of all of your messages, inbox and archived.
Thanks to commenter Josh for this tip!
1. Perform your search.
To search all archived messages and not just the inbox, do a blank search.
2. At the top of the url, add /p9999 or other sufficiently large number to go beyond the last result.
Gmail will show you an error and not display any messages.
3. Click “Refresh” – you will end up at the last page of the search result.
If anyone has an idea how to do this in an easier, less complicated way, please let me know in comments! I would hope that Google will add a sorting function to Gmail, bringing the oldest message at top, but I guess there is not a lot of demand for that.
http://systembash.com/content/find-your-oldest-messages-in-gmail/
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