The sample search you provided works as expected for me, and this is the
notation that I've used for this kind of search in the past.
One thing I will say is that sometimes Gmail searching is intermittently
weird. I've done searches for items where I know there are results from the
distant past, and yet only had recent years be returned. Trying the search
again later seems to have resolved the problem. I suspect this is a matter
of how people's accounts are provisioned to various Google servers, and
sometimes those servers doing a bad or incomplete job of indexing, but I
don't really know.
My only advice would be to try again later? I know that's not particularly
satisfying, but it should be helpful to know that others have observed
similar weirdness in Gmail search before, which eventually resolved.
-Dre.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM charles meyer <reachmeplace_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> My esteemed listmates,
>
> I guess I need a reboot on this.
>
> I used to be able to search all my gmails in all my gmail boxes in an
> account like this....
>
> in the top search box (not the advanced search whsi lints you to 1 year)
>
> I typed in "3d after:2021/1/1 before:2025/8/2" without the quotes.
>
> So that should return all messages with the topic 3d from 1-1-2021
> through 8-2-2025.
>
> It only returns messages in 2025.
>
> AI confirmed this to be the method, Googled results ditto'd this.
>
> For gmail users, is that how you search for old messages from past years?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Charles.
>
> Charlotte County Public Library
>
Received on Sat Aug 30 2025 - 20:01:08 EDT