{"id":1856,"date":"2011-06-12T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2014-06-04T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T07:13:23","slug":"search-gmail-using-gmails-search-syntax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/search-gmail-using-gmails-search-syntax","title":{"rendered":"Search Gmail using Gmail&#8217;s search syntax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To provide access to the full Gmail search syntax, Gmail provides the X-GM-RAW search attribute.<\/p>\n<p>Arguments passed along with the X-GM-RAW attribute when executing the SEARCH command will be interpreted in the same manner as in the Gmail web interface.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: csharp; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n\/\/ C# version\r\n\r\nusing (Imap imap = new Imap())\r\n{\r\n    imap.ConnectSSL(&quot;imap.gmail.com&quot;);\r\n    imap.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@gmail.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;);\r\n\r\n    \/\/ Select 'All Mail' folder\r\n    CommonFolders common = new CommonFolders(client.GetFolders());\r\n    client.Select(common.AllMail);\r\n\r\n    List&lt;long&gt; uids = imap.Search().Where(\r\n        Expression.GmailRawSearch(\r\n            &quot;in:inbox subject:Notification with -without&quot;));\r\n\r\n    foreach (MessageInfo info in imap.GetMessageInfoByUID(uids))\r\n    {\r\n        Console.WriteLine(&quot;{0} - {1}&quot;,\r\n            info.Envelope.GmailThreadId,\r\n            info.Envelope.Subject);\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    imap.Close();\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<pre class=\"brush: vb; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n' VB.NET version\r\n\r\nUsing imap As New Imap()\r\n\timap.ConnectSSL(&quot;imap.gmail.com&quot;)\r\n\timap.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@gmail.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;)\r\n\r\n\t' Select 'All Mail' folder\r\n\tDim common As New CommonFolders(client.GetFolders())\r\n\tclient.Select(common.AllMail)\r\n\r\n\tDim uids As List(Of Long) = imap.Search().Where( _\r\n            Expression.GmailRawSearch( _\r\n                &quot;in:inbox subject:Notification with -without&quot;))\r\n\r\n\tFor Each info As MessageInfo In imap.GetMessageInfoByUID(uids)\r\n\t    Console.WriteLine(&quot;{0} - {1}&quot;,  _\r\n                info.Envelope.GmailThreadId,  _\r\n                info.Envelope.Subject)\r\n\tNext\r\n\r\n\timap.Close()\r\nEnd Using\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can learn more about this Gmail IMAP extension here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/gmail\/imap\/#x-gm-raw\">http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/gmail\/imap\/#x-gm-raw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To provide access to the full Gmail search syntax, Gmail provides the X-GM-RAW search attribute. Arguments passed along with the X-GM-RAW attribute when executing the SEARCH command will be interpreted in the same manner as in the Gmail web interface. \/\/ C# version using (Imap imap = new Imap()) { imap.ConnectSSL(&quot;imap.gmail.com&quot;); imap.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@gmail.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;); \/\/ Select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,25,28,77,57,65],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-dll","tag-c","tag-gmail","tag-imap","tag-imap-component","tag-vb-net","tag-x-gm-raw"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}