Email aliases now included in Gmail search results
Thursday, February 11, 2021
These results will be pulled from the to, from, cc, and bcc fields, or anywhere in the email.
- Official name changes
- Preferred names
- Company rebrands
- Acquisitions and subsidiaries
If you’d like to retrieve results for the exact query only, you can enclose it in quotation marks.
This will also apply to multiple inbox sections based on search queries which have an email(s). Labels are not affected by this change.
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about giving users additional "email alias" addresses.
- End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about searching in Gmail.
- This feature is available now for all users.
- Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers
- Google Help: Search in Gmail
- Google Admin Help: Give a user an additional "email alias" address
- Google Admin Help: Change a user's email address