Gmail Search not Displaying trash or junk

Search Spam & Trash

Gmail won’t show messages from Spam or Trash in your results. This means when we ask a person to search for their activation email they will not see it if it is going to their spam folder or if they have sent it to trash. Follow the directions below to search all folders in Gmail.

Here’s how to see search messages in Spam and Trash:

1. Open Gmail.
2. In the search box at the top of the page, click the Down arrow .
3. In the drop-down menu next to “Search,” select Mail & Spam & Trash.
4. Enter your search information.
5. At the bottom, click Search.