Is there a way to reset search in Mail?

[yalag]

I'm not sure how everyone is doing this. But I do roughly 20-30 mail searches a day.

But when the search is done and now I want to see the top of my most recent email (for new emails and whatnot). How do I get there?

There's no keyboard shortcut to do this. And if I were to do this manually I have to press the X in the search field. Scroll the email list to the to top by using the scroll bar. It's really cumbersome.

 

[chown33]

I use the ESC key.

 

[yalag]

I use the ESC key.

What does ESC do for you? I just tried it now, and ESC does nothing on my machine

 

[chown33]

When the cursor is in the Search field, and I've typed things there, ESC will clear the field and put me back in the normal mailbox view, which I have sorted by date.

If yours doesn't do that, then first check in System Preferences > Keyboard that you don't have an action bound to the ESC key.

Or it might be that your version of Mail.app differs from mine.