Gmail – Find an email address within the body of an email

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I know I can put in an email address in the search box in Gmail to find the messages sent either to or from that email address. However, I have a situation where someone was supposed to send me details about an email address in the body of the email.

I have one message that I know contains the email address in question within the body content, and I'm trying to see if I received others, but when I put that address in the search box, nothing returns. I have tried specifying body: in the search, as well as enclosing the email address in quotes, but it never shows up.

Is there any way to search for addresses that are not part of any to/from fields? Anything special I have to do to escape the @ sign, or something like that?

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The only way I know of doing this is to limit your search to filter out cases in which you don't want to see that email address. This should at least remove a lot (not all) of false positives from your search results.

-to:foo@bar.com -from:foo@bar.com -cc:foo@bar.com "foo@bar.com"

What you're doing is filtering out foo@bar.com from the to, from and cc fields. What should be left is searching for "foo@bar.com" in any remaining fields.

Again this isn't 100% reliable, but might help you out.

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Gmail – Get email addresses from Gmail message body

You would need to write some sort of regex to extract that string from the message.

var threads = GmailApp.getInboxThreads();

for (var t in threads) {

  var messages = threads[t].getMessages[];
  var text = messages[0].getPlainBody();

  var matches = /From:(.*?)<(.*?)>/gi.exec(text);
  if (matches) 
      Logger.log(matches[1] + " :: " + matches[2]);

}

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