irritating gmail problem

[basildonbond]

is there a way of tracking down the one unread email in my inbox without having to go through the 7000+ emails stored there

it's really bugging me as I can't think what it might be - I'm pretty sure if it was urgent whoever sent it would have followed it up by now - and it's offending my sense of tidiness!

any ideas?

Yes, you can search in the search box at the top of your gmail screen. If you click on the arrow at the right hand you can choose which things you want to search e.g. sender if you know who it is.

CR xx

There's a box at the top with a square and a down arrow. This will allow you to select unread mail. You can then add a new label, which will appear on the left hand side.

I had a weird email this morning. It flashed up for a millisecond then disappeared. I did manage to note the date said 1970!!!! Emails didn't exist then.....

Worth checking the oldest email in your inbox. Could explain why you couldn't see it if you got the same one?

The 1970 date is quite a common thing. On many systems times are commonly stored as a number representing seconds since 00:00 1st Jan 1970. If for any reason the date header is missing from an email, it may get a zero date, i.e. 00:00 1st Jan 1970.

I believe email did exist in 1970. IIRC the first emails were sent in the 1960s, between 2 American universities on ARPANet, an early predecessor of todays internet.

Ooh - I get regular blank 01/01/1970 emails!

Ah, could have given a long and boring post about e-mail in the 80s and 90s but won't (!)

I know mail is meant to include the 'local' date (+time) when sending. If a message has no "Date" header, then the e-mail software is either using 1/1/1970 or might consider the message invalid (which may explain the 'flashed up and then disappeared' action).

There's a section on *> Wikipedia