Negated Gmail searches return wrong message sets
Negated Gmail searches such as -in:inbox return incomplete or invalid sets of messages.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 5 May 2022 · last reported 12 February 2024
What's going wrong
Several users write searches that exclude a folder, a star, or a sent-mail rule and find that the results are wrong.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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