Gmail search misses partial strings and headers
Gmail search cannot reliably match partial strings, header values, Via addresses, document IDs, exact symbols or empty bodies.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
10 public reports · first reported 7 November 2015 · last reported 10 April 2024
What's going wrong
Users trying to filter or find mail report that Gmail search fails on partial reference codes, message header values such as SPF results, the via domain shown in the sender line, document IDs in links, and symbols like at-signs in exact phrases.
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