Gmail full? Find big emails to get your space back!

FindBigMail, as you have known it, is down and will remain so for a while—Google have declined to ‚revalidate‘ our application in the form that it has run safely and without a single security instance since 2010.

size:30MB

The size:30MB search will return all emails larger than 30 Megabytes. You can change the „30“ to a higher, or lower, number to increase or decrease the number of results. You can change the size to KB if required. eg: ’size:20KB‘

Unfortunately you cannot sort by size, so if you want to know which emails are the biggest, you need to do some trial and error with that number to narrow down the search results to a number of emails you can handle—like a single page—which is exactly what findbigmail was doing for you behind the scenes; working out the size which returns your biggest 20 emails.

Of course Google could trivially implement a sort-by-size, but that would contradict a financial interest; demonstrating exactly why findbigmail had such an enduring appeal!

larger:2MB smaller:10MB

You can also use the ‚larger:‘ and ’smaller:‘ commands to find emails between those sizes. Vary the numbers to suit you.

older:2019/10/15

Searching for emails ‚older:‘ than a specific date might also be useful for finding all the emails the email you may no longer care about, so that you can delete them by bulk. You can combine this with the ’size:‘ keyword.