Search a mailbox with the Nylas Email API

Short summary

Nylas Email API offers two search approaches: portable standard query parameters (from, subject, unread, date) normalized across Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP, and search_query_native for provider-specific query languages when standard params fall short. The post walks through both with HTTP API examples and CLI commands, noting key gotchas like folder IDs vs names and base64 inflation on attachment size limits.

• •Standard query params are portable across Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP
• •search_query_native passes provider-specific query strings for advanced searches
• •CLI command 'nylas email search' mirrors the API with friendly date formats and auto-pagination

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