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title: Searching for Every Email in Users Gmail Account
description: "**Email Content Search** is a**live** search for your entire domain. Allowing Google Workspace Admins to search for any piece of text in **any** email in **any** mailbox across the domain. > As long as the email is**not permanently removed** from…"
url: "https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/tech-tips/searching-for-every-email-in-users-gmail-account/"
updated: "2022-09-27"
category: "Email Audit & Management"
tags:
  - GAT+
---

# Searching for Every Email in Users Gmail Account

**Email Content Search** is a**live** search for your entire domain. Allowing Google Workspace Admins to search for any piece of text in **any** email in **any** mailbox across the domain.

> As long as the email is**not permanently removed** from the bin folder, **Email content search**can find it.  This process may take a long time if you are searching through many accounts at the same time.

## Start Live Search

To start a live search to find emails from one user's account, select the following operators:

> **from:** OR **to:** or "*some sentence*" etc.

For example:

> **from:david@generalaudittool.com "private and confidential" newer_than:30d is:read**

- Any string in quotes **" "** is used to search both the **subject and the body** of the email.
- '**newer_than:**' is counted in (d)ays. '**is:**' can be **read or unread** or both states if omitted.

You should narrow down the search as much as possible to speed up the search. ![](https://gatlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/screenshot-gs.generalaudittool.com-2021.04.19-15_52_41.png) When the Query is applied.

- **Apply the search query** and enter it on the field
- Search for the Users - **enter**the **User/Group/Org. Unit **
- Click on **Search emails **

> Note: Ignore Google Meet/Hangouts chat records by using ( **-is:chat**), the (**-**) symbol excludes chat messages.

> Note: Click on "**∨ "**icon- to see [Google Search tips](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190)

## Result

When the search results appear you **can request** access to **view, delete(remove), or download** the Emails. The results can be exported into Google Sheet (CSV) for further analysis. Select the emails and use the **Unlock feature** to request access via Security officer approval.

![](https://gatlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/screenshot-gs.generalaudittool.com-2021.04.19-18_55_06.png)

## Take action - using Unlock

More information regards the actions possible via **[Unlock can be found here](https://gatlabs.com/products/gat-unlock/)**