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None of the search works in Big Sur Mail.app

Hi,

To me Big Sur Mail.app is next to useless as none of the search, nor smart mailbox works at all.

I upgraded then immediately noticed that none of my smart mailbox worked, they displayed a correct (?) number of unread message, but clicking on them, just makes the number disappear, and show no message at all, like if it were empty.

Then I tried searches, I took the eMail address of a colleague and it returned 2 results, after a long "Searching…" message occurred.

I rebuilt my spotlight index, then deleted all envelope files, then rebuild the database. No dice.

I even deleted the whole /Library/Mail folder, and after all my iMap mails were downloaded, still same issue.

I'm using a Google Gsuite email imap account, and an iCloud one, same issue

Posted on Nov 13, 2020 6:38 AM

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fellow

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84 points

Posted on Nov 13, 2020 9:48 AM

Same issue, search fails every time. No results for any search.

Searching by sender, subject, all terms fails to produce even one result. Had to go to web iCloud interface to find messages from this week.

Come on Apple. Where is the excellence?

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Feb 12, 2021 10:14 AM in response to Glitchtracker

ALL other email apps work fine and I will never use Apple Mail app again.

Feb 12, 2021 10:55 AM in response to GanawaGangunawa

Thanks! That gives some temporary relief indeed. Also searching in Notes works again then.

Feb 25, 2021 6:17 AM in response to Glitchtracker

have the same longstanding issue. Worthless!

Feb 25, 2021 6:20 AM in response to spiritgal

killall -9 corespotlightd - in terminal seems to work.

Which is good because I was using my laptop where it seemed fine, but it's no longer working.

Feb 27, 2021 1:53 AM in response to philthehumanist

another apple update (11.2.2) and another missed opportunity to fix this issue. I'm really getting fed up with the lack of support...

Mar 10, 2021 11:15 AM in response to philthehumanist

latest update 11.2.3

Still NOT FIXED. incredible....

Mar 31, 2021 4:31 AM in response to Glitchtracker

I don't know how to search for mail = I can't find a function option - I am new to this so need simple support

@mr

Level 1

4 points

Mar 31, 2021 6:12 AM in response to evelinefromlondon

Don't worry.. it doesn't work anyway. :-(

But if you open "Mail" the search box is in the top right corner.

Mar 31, 2021 8:15 AM in response to philthehumanist

philthehumanist, did you try killing the corespothlightd process in Activity Monitor ? it takes 2 seconds to do and works every time.

Mar 31, 2021 8:38 AM in response to GanawaGangunawa

Yes - that's the script I posted above - but you have to keep doing it fairly often. When you do it eats up resources as well as it seems to need to reindex things some times.

Mar 31, 2021 10:29 AM in response to GanawaGangunawa

Oh right - yes. Thanks.

May 7, 2021 3:55 AM in response to Yigal Arens

Thank you, that solved the issue for me.

May 12, 2021 1:14 PM in response to Yigal Arens

Didn't work at all for me.

samwoods

Level 1

4 points

Jun 17, 2021 6:33 PM in response to Yigal Arens

This worked perfectly. Thanks Yigal!

None of the search works in Big Sur Mail.app