Search by message size

How it works

larger: and smaller: set a threshold, size: a size. Google gives the examples size:1000000 and larger:10M.

Examples

• larger:10MOpen in Gmail ↗

  Messages larger than 10M, which means ten megabytes by common usage.

• size:1000000Open in Gmail ↗

  Messages with a size of 1,000,000 (unit not defined by the help page).

What it does well

• A size threshold in one line, to track down the heaviest messages.

What it does badly

• The help page doesn't define the unit of size: (bytes? something else?) nor any suffix other than M.Not documented by Google · Gmail Help: search operators

See also

• has:Finds messages containing an attachment, a YouTube video, a Drive file or a Google document.
• filename:Finds messages with an attachment of a given name or file type.
• older_than:newer_than:Finds messages older or newer than a duration, without giving an exact date.

Search examples that use it

• Find the large messages filling up your mailboxlarger:10M