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gmail filter to read only unread messages

One of the nice features of GMail is the advanced search. These are basically a set of commands or operators that perform special actions. The problem is I tend to forget about them so this post is more for my purpose than anyone else's. So after going through the docs I got this to find all my unread messages in my inbox via the following in the search box
   view plainprintabout
 label:inbox is:unread
Find all of them at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190
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David McGuigan's Gravatar Very nice! I had no idea you could do this. The is:chat directive just helped me find an old code snippet I was looking for. Priceless.
# Posted By David McGuigan | 12/23/08 1:35 AM
Sean Corfield's Gravatar You can also create bookmarks that have search queries already in them containing these advanced searches. I like to see a view will all my unread email except for certain labels:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&q=is...

i.e., is:unread -label:whatever

This shows all unread email except that labeled "whatever".
# Posted By Sean Corfield | 12/23/08 6:17 PM
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