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Mavericks Mail, Not Searching.
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Try this... (backup first just to be safe)
Quit Mail then open Finder and hit shift-command-g (all three keys at once) and paste in the path below then return.
In the folder that opens scroll down to find the three files called Envelope and delete them.
Now restart Mail then select each folder one by one and click the Mailbox menu then Rebuild.
This should reindex everything.
Quit Mail then open Finder and hit shift-command-g (all three keys at once) and paste in the path below then return.
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~/Library/Mail/V2/MailDataIn the folder that opens scroll down to find the three files called Envelope and delete them.
Now restart Mail then select each folder one by one and click the Mailbox menu then Rebuild.
This should reindex everything.
Hmmm... it seems to work fine for me.
So if you type something in the Search box at the top right of Mail app for a message you know is stored locally in a Mail folder is does not find it?
Ran into the exact same problem a few months back. Tried literally every method I could find and yet it still couldn't be fixed. Had to do a clean install to get my in-app searches back.
My final conclusion was that it had something to do with Keychain because there was this console error message that nobody seemed to have mentioned anywhere (Googled it and its possible variants). I later found a post with a problem similar (vaguely) to mine and it was keychain related, and since creating a new user does obliterate the problem while reindexing, re-building, spotlight reindexing, and everything else you can think of, did not, I concluded that it was a user keychain problem. Best bet is to either create a new user or to reinstall completely (if your problem really is the same one that I encountered)
My final conclusion was that it had something to do with Keychain because there was this console error message that nobody seemed to have mentioned anywhere (Googled it and its possible variants). I later found a post with a problem similar (vaguely) to mine and it was keychain related, and since creating a new user does obliterate the problem while reindexing, re-building, spotlight reindexing, and everything else you can think of, did not, I concluded that it was a user keychain problem. Best bet is to either create a new user or to reinstall completely (if your problem really is the same one that I encountered)
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Yes that's correct, I can be looking at my last mail from Amazon and do a search....I get the message All Mailboxes (Found 0 matches for search)
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Thanks drew627
Ensure your system is indexing via Spotlight. Do not exclude the disk in Spotlight's Privacy pane that holds your Mail.app data.
Mail.app's search relies on Spotlight indexing.
Spotlight can search, In App can not. Rebuild and Reindex won't help. This is exactly the issue I met with.
I tried methods in <http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/ss/Troubleshooting-Apple-Mail-Using-Apple-Mails-Troubleshooting-Tools_3.htm> to enable logging. The script can run and Launch Mail, but no additional log is generated to Console, at least I did find any one.
It is really annoying, I really want to resolve this issue.
drew627, could you post the error message you seen on the console? where do you find it? 'System Log Queries'->'All Messages' ? could you help to share the Keychain related issue? Maybe I can get some clues.
I tried methods in <http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/ss/Troubleshooting-Apple-Mail-Using-Apple-Mails-Troubleshooting-Tools_3.htm> to enable logging. The script can run and Launch Mail, but no additional log is generated to Console, at least I did find any one.
It is really annoying, I really want to resolve this issue.
drew627, could you post the error message you seen on the console? where do you find it? 'System Log Queries'->'All Messages' ? could you help to share the Keychain related issue? Maybe I can get some clues.
Alas, this happened to me during the beta and I didn't keep the logs!
This is my original post: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1603768/
A similar (not the same) mail bug on Apple Discussions: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24066877#24066877
Hope these could help
Hi Lammy,
I have exactly the same problem with you.
The in-app search always find nothing, but spotlight works.
After a lot of try, I think it is KeyChain related.
Our company have two mail servers, one is "excas" based on certificate authorisation, the other is based on webmail.
Both server can be configured as Exchange mail server.
When use the webmail server, the in-app search works fine.
When use the certificate one, the in-app search does not work.
Hope Apple can fix this.
I have exactly the same problem with you.
The in-app search always find nothing, but spotlight works.
After a lot of try, I think it is KeyChain related.
Our company have two mail servers, one is "excas" based on certificate authorisation, the other is based on webmail.
Both server can be configured as Exchange mail server.
When use the webmail server, the in-app search works fine.
When use the certificate one, the in-app search does not work.
Hope Apple can fix this.