If the recipient of a Gmail message is lost in a deluge of emails and cannot locate your message, you can help him find it easily, with a simple trick.
Obviously the recipient can get in Gmail messages and search based on who the sender is, by putting the term FROM in the search or based on various words from the subject with the term SUBJECT, to display a list of messages that will meet the search criteria. Wouldn't it be useful though if there was a way for him to directly locate the one and only message he's interested in?
Υπάρχει ένα εναλλακτικό τέχνασμα αναζήτησης με το οποίο ο αποστολέας μπορεί πραγματικά να βοηθήσει τον παραλήπτη να βρει ένα συγκεκριμένο μήνυμα ηλεκτρονικού post officey that he has sent to him in the past.
Όταν στέλνετε ένα μήνυμα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου μέσω του Gmail, προστίθεται ένα μοναδικό αναγνωριστικό μηνύματος στην κεφαλίδα του μηνύματος αυτού, σύμφωνα με την προδιαγραφή RFC 822. Για να δείτε το εκάστοτε αναγνωριστικό του μηνύματός σας, ανοίξτε το μήνυμα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου στο Gmail, μεταβείτε στο μενού κάνοντας click on the 3 dots on the top right and from there select "Show Original". A new tab will open in your browser. The unique message ID (Message-ID) will appear in the first line of the header as in the photo below. In this particular case the Message-ID is:
a2025cb18b12403a10ec0bb2f2adca70cbd8e776-10030322-100159012@google.com
The message-ID of a particular e-mail is exactly the same for the sender and recipient. This means that if the recipient opens the header of the e-mail message in his mailbox, the Message-ID will match that of the same message from the sender's folder.
In addition, Gmail offers a lesser-known search term - Rfc822msgid - which helps you search for Message-based emails.
Therefore, if your message ID is otidopote@mail.gmail.com, a simple search by Rfc8222msgid: otidiote@mail.gmail.com will return the exact email to your search results. Note that the search term Rfc8222msgid is written in uppercase R and not lowercase, as mentioned in related help from Google, since with a small r it does not work for us.
And that's the trick. This search query will work for both the recipient and the sender of the email.
Therefore, if you pass the message identifier to the recipient, it can simply use the term Rfc822msgid to locate that email in its own mailbox. Or just send it complete the search term. In this case, all the search term is:
Rfc822msgid:a2025cb18b12403a10ec0bb2f2adca70cbd8e776-10030322-100159012@google.com
Since Message-ID is very complicated, and your recipient might not understand what you are telling them, you can just do the search yourself in your Gmail, copy the URL of σελίδαGmail search and forward them to the recipient, simply asking them to run it. The URL will work for them as well since the message ID is the same for them. In our particular case the address is:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/Rfc822msgid%3Aa2025cb18b12403a10ec0bb2f2adca70cbd8e776-10030322-100159012%40google.com
