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southerndoc

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Has anyone figured out a way to get search to work in Mail? I've restarted, quit/reopened Mail, but can't seem to get it to actually search for anything.
 
Has anyone figured out a way to get search to work in Mail? I've restarted, quit/reopened Mail, but can't seem to get it to actually search for anything.
Ugh, I am having the SAME exact problem. I wish I had an answer for you because I have tried absolutely everything.
 
Have you tried the “Rebuild” option under the Mailbox menu? This is supposed to reset search parameters.
 
Has anyone figured out a way to get search to work in Mail? I've restarted, quit/reopened Mail, but can't seem to get it to actually search for anything.

Doesn't it show anything when you search?

I am able to search but it doesn't find everything. I searched for a special word that I only wrote with two persons about. All mails for one address showed up, the others were missing.

The mails that didn't show up were from an address marked as VIP. I just removed VIP from that address and they are in the search results now. I think this problem existed already in Sequoia. I often wondered why I couldn't find some things I wrote with that VIP address.

I only had two VIPs and removed them now.

Otherwise the search seems to work normal for me and I have many accounts in there from different providers. At least it looks like that. It's too much in there to say for sure that it is finding everything now.

I also don't save email addresses in my contacts.
 
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