I am no longer able to search.
1) if I search something all it does is show the numerical number of matches below the search bar - nothing changes in the actual email list
2) if I select the sender (right click) same result - nothing shows up except the numerical number of results which does not help
I tried to rebuild my mailbox but this does nothing.
Any help would be appreciated.
This solved my problem. My search was broken too. I followed the stop/start spotlight as mentioned in the post above and the search is gradually coming back to normal. I think Spotlight needed a kick to get moving.
Summarizing from the link:
1) Launch the Terminal.app (Just copy/paste the string starting with sudo.... and press return)
2) Stop Spotlight and remove the indexing: # sudo mdutil -i off -E / <return>
3) Enable it again by typing: # sudo mdutil -i on / <return>
Thanks James, that fixed my issue and works as before.
That's exactly where I currently stand. Every now and then, the search function just stops working.
And the only solution is to Shift-relaunch Mail twice and reboot.
Until the next incident.
Same problem here.
Tried disabling indexing and re-enabling.
Re-added e-mail accounts.
Come on Apple, over to you.
Not just search, but Messages also. I can search for a term in either Mail or Messages from an email or text that I can see right in front of me and search will return no results. How?
Did not work for me.
Same here, was trying to search for an emails. Nothing works.
So far so good for me.
Nine phone calls later and they still can't fix it-feels like I bought a Windows product.
Reboot computer in safemode. Open up mail and check it it works. If it does reboot regular and should still work. It gets annoying having to do this all the time but it works until it gets fixed.
Thanks a lot,
Cheers!
No hope for me
The problem appears to be gmail. Delete your google accounts, restart and then add them back.
I don't have any issues searching Mail. Only in the pop-up Spotlight search bar.
I don't have gmail set up on my account at all and it still is a problem for me.
OS update 10.15 solved the issue for me. No further action was required.
mail search completely broken in Catalina
