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When I search for a particular message in Mail.app, using the search field, even when I have the message in sight, Mail cannot find it. But, frustratingly, when I use Spotlight, it is able to find the message.
Instead there is a more elegant solution: Install the Chrome App Launcher. It basically does almost the same thing as Spotlight search, but you can key it to whatever search engine you want (the default, of course is Google).
For example, I'll open a folder with a variety of recipes. I can see all the subjects and I see an email with the subject: 'Smoothies'. Typing in 'Smoothies' into the search field brings up 0 results. But typing in 'Smoothies' into Spotlight shows the desired message.
How can I get Mail.app to search correctly?
Notepad plus plus like app for mac. I'm running Mac OS X 10.11.3.
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Rebuilding Mail.app's mailboxes fixed this for me. This ComputerWorld article is a great reference for rebuilding and reindexing your mailboxes:
- Rebuild: Select a mailbox (or several by shift-clicking) and then use 'Mailbox > Rebuild'
- Reindex: Quit Mail, navigate to
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
(on Mac OS 10.12 - Sierra,~/Library/Mail/V4/MailData
) and delete any files where the name begins withEnvelope Index
. Mail will rebuild the indexes on the next start (which may take a long time depending on the size of your mailboxes)
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Centrallo app download for mac windows 10. This helped me - it allows unrestricted spotlight search - and, after executing that command, mail search and smart mailboxes worked again
Open terminal from the utilities folder and execute:
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for years I had this problem (on and off) and tried everything I could find.Finally I found this: for some reason indexing was turned off and I had to 'switch it on' with sudo mdutil -a -i onAfter that mail search immediately worked.Hope this will make a few people less frustrated with mail (like I was)
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