Gmail – How to filter empty drafts in Gmail

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I want to use Gmail's search to find all my empty replies or drafts (mostly because I quite frequency click in the reply text area and create a new draft without meaning to).

To test this out I created two draft emails, one with nothing at all (no subject, addressee, content, not even spaces), and one whose contents are asdf and searched for them like this:

  • in:draft smaller:513 — both drafts appear in search results

  • in:draft smaller:512 — neither appears in search results

How do I search in order to return ONLY the completely empty drafts?

Best Answer

Short answer

AFAIK it's not possible that Gmail search return only empty messages when you are searching them by size.

Alternatives

Look for the messages that returns [in:draft smaller:513] to try to find a pattern that could be used to refine the search terms. I.E. a word in the signature, a greeting, etc.

Protip

Temporarily disable the conversation view to avoid to get non-draft messages that are part of the same conversation that some of the drafts.