mail search completely broken in Catalina

1. Préférences sytème
2. Spotlight
3. décocher laissez spotlight faire des suggestion
4. That's it
5. reboot

The problem appears to be gmail. Delete your google accounts, restart and then add them back.

After Terminal disable/enable Spotlight need to reboot and mail search comes back.

I reindexed all of my mail and it started working again. The 10.15 update broke it again! This is just plain INSANE!!!

Yes, seems since update to 10.15.1 no problems anymore for me so far ...

I tried all the resolutions I can find online, but the issue always comes until I updated OS to v10.15.1.

Well, i've done the same procedure and i can confirm that the problem seems to be related to Gmail accounts.

After this operation searches on Exchange accounts started to work correctly.

Searches on GMAIL account are still not working

The latest beta seems to have solved this problem. I’m good now for two full days. It’s not gmail. It’s an Apple issue. It doesn’t go way for good no matter which way you try to fix it. The beta seems to solve it. Be patient. It’s soon to be released.

Hi,

The suggested answer of close mail/shift open mail/close mail/shift open mail/close mail/reboot fixed my searches for both gmail, other exchange and iCloud emails, ALL of which were non functional. Now, if only I could adjust column width as before or remove the superfluous inbox label!

Yeah, apple mail is completely broken in Catalina. I've waited for them to fix this, but no fix yet. I have the same problems:

1. Cannot search - ANYTHING! Nothing happens when type in the search box and press enter
2. Lost ALL flagged emails. Flagged email category does not even show up in the sidebar. This one is pretty annoying. I had so many flagged emails which I use regularly.

Tried rebuilding, the spotlight turning off-on thing using terminal, rebooting, safe mode, all kinds of stuff suggested here. Tried waiting for them to fix this. Alas, trying the final solution - Changing my mail client. I guess apple doesn't want to maintain a mail client anymore.

I did these steps from edgemiw in this thread, and it worked immediately. But just booted up this morning and it is back. I don't use Gmail instead just an iCloud account and and exchange server account. It is not just the search function that is broken, it is also the VIP folder/search (of whatever it is called). So normally, initially when you boot up, the vip function will work and sort emails from only those you identified as vip. Same with Search..it works., but have looking at email and then going to do other things, both do not work. Like I said I initially did the steps from edgemiw and that worked immediately. It also corrected a minor lag in the mail app opening after the upgrade.

Min,

Not sure if you mean the update to v10.15.1 fixes the problem all by itself? i.e., Did Apple put something into the update to fix the problem outright?

I wasn't able to confirm if the update to v10.15.1 actually fixes the problem:

• I fixed one of my Macs before the update. After the update it still works.
• I started the fix on another Mac, but before the reboot part I ran the update to v10.15.1. After the update, I finished the fix and it works now, too.

So for sure... the update to v10.15.1 doesn't doesn't hurt things.

😀

Chill bruh the new update fixes it

Same problem. Smart mailboxes are now dead in the water (as are searches) in Mail after the Catalina upgrade on my iMac. On my MacBook Pro after the Catalina upgrade searches and smart mailboxes are working just fine.