Gmail search lacks wildcards and prefix matching
Gmail search has no wildcard or prefix matching for senders, labels, plus-addresses, or partial reference codes.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 27 December 2016 · last reported 31 October 2023
What's going wrong
People trying to match a family of sender addresses, a numbered reference code inside a notification body, or a label with children find that Gmail search offers no wildcard or prefix matching.
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