how do you find all unread email in inbox

[rum...@gmail.com]

I have about 500 emails in my inbox. more than 50000 in all mails.

within the 500 emails in my inbox, there are 5 unread emails.

how do i find them using a search query? once found, i will assign the
label inbox-unread.

if i use the search options, i find all the gazillion mails under other
folders which are unread.

i am hoping, some gmail wizard/engineer can come up with a query i can
use..

something like

label:inbox and is:unread

the above query brings back only 2 of the 5 items, with no particular
reason as to why only those 2 were found. I know there are 5 items,
because when i bring up the perpetually crashing gtalk ( the
perpetually crashing part is solely limited to my machine among my
friends), it cycles through the 5 items in the inbox...

Thanks in advance for any help

RG

gmail wishlist: saved searches (ie saved search expressions) and
sorting.

[Zack (Doc)]

That query should work... I use ones like it nearly every day. Are
you positive your perpetually crashing GTalk isn't recalling that list
from a cache? Mark one of them read that you do find, retest your
query, and retest your GTalk... my suspicion is that it's GTalk's
cache that's wrong, but I could be wrong, in which case you need to
report it to GMail so they know there's a problem with search in your
account.

[Sander]

rum...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have about 500 emails in my inbox. more than 50000 in all mails.
>

> label:inbox and is:unread

Almost, try "in:inbox is:unread"

[rum...@gmail.com]

very cool. in fact, both "in:inbox is:unread" as well as "label:inbox
is:unread" work.

both DON'T work if you use "and".

ie

"in:inbox and is:unread" as well as "label:inbox and is:unread" both
give the same partial results.

mark a few very old emails unread and try it..

Many thanks though. Never realized that "and" was spooking gmail.

RG

[asphyx]

"in:inbox and is:unread" will match unread mails containing the word "and" in the inbox
"and" is not an operator.

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[rum...@gmail.com]

Thanks for clearing that one up!