Mail search not working after Big Sur install

When you first launch the ACTIVITY MONITOR application you'll see the following along the top of it's window:

Red ball, Yellow ball, Green ball, "Activity Monitor", X in a circle, I in a circle, ... in a circle, down arrow, "CPU", "Memory".........

The "X" in question is the "X in a circle".

Yes, 11.3.1 and still won't search subfolders. Searches ALL Mailboxes fine. But won't search subfolders of a normal folder. Is anyone else able to search subfolders under a generic folder? My Mail only searches the folder highlighted but not beneath it.

Bundy, thank you. I'm not being clear. If you click on the subfolder and select it of course it works, yes. But I'm saying this: Say for example I have a folder labeled "Food." Under it as subfolders I have "Grapes" and "Spices". If I select "Food" and search for something, Mail only searches "Food" folder but not the subfolders. Mail used to search "Food" and "Grapes" and "Spices" if you selected "Food" to search. Now it only searches "Food" ignoring the subfolders. Hope this is clear.

I, too, had a Mail time problem: I recently upgraded from the dreaded Catalina, all settings transferred over yet Mail was posting an hour earlier than my Central time zone.

I found default on the Date & Time clock is CST for the region - although we observe daylight savings/CDT. Using automatic check box in Date & Time vs. manual I found the solution. [Manually the clock setting went to San Salvador (not sure why I was getting Central America) and CST, automatic feature offered CDT Chicago - at which time I could uncheck the "set time zone automatically using current location. Mail and Notification center responded immediately. (Having little confidence in this fix, I will doublecheck the time when the region returns to CST.)

Yep, 11.3. Mail search today produced nothing on my MacBook, multiple things in iOS, on the same mail account. As before.

I tried the Shift open, the Spotlight rebuild with no lasting effects. Rebuilding Spotlight again, will see what happens.

Justy happened to me, and I'm running 11.4. I wish I never upgraded to Big Sur! It's been so unstable. Constantly crashing, and now THIS! I rely on searching my email on a daily, almost hourly, basis.

Do you happen to know if there's a way to stop rebuilding a mailbox once you've begun to rebuild? I had started a rebuild, which means 38,000 messages are being slowly downloaded. I see it in the Activity window in Mail, but I have no idea how to cancel it. Thanks.

Thanks this worked. Shame Apple couldn't sort it. It sucks. I've been using a mac for 30 years and the software issues I get now should never never happen. What are they doing releasing updates with so many inherent issues.

I still have issues with Apple Mail - which used to be my favourite programme - and it makes me want to cry.

What is happening with Mail? I keep expecting an an upgrade will surely fix it - but this is dragging on.

Mail on my iPhone works fine - in fact sometimes I need to use my mail on my phone in conjunction with my MacBook Pro to manage it. In other words, when I'm looking for a message and it isn't found in my MBP Mail, I search my phone Mail where I can see the date and time of the message - and then travel to there on my MBP. Frustrating, is all I can say and I'm really disappointed.

What is the phone team doing that the MBP don't yet know about? Or maybe teams have stopped talking together?

I tried this method twice, but it didn't help. When I search running Big Sur 11.5.2, I get a couple recent emails but then nothing going back to 2018. Some emails older than that may or may not contain the search terms, but I'm getting no more recent results with thousands of email messages to search through. I also tried Close Mail, Shift-Click, etc., unchecked all but iCloud account, but still nothing changes.

I have only one user on my new macmini and yet mail search is broken.

None of the "easy" fixes you can find on the web seem to work by the way - or at least not permanently (. I haven't tried "corespotlightd" yet though.

Very disapointing indeed.

I’m still having a problem with the email search function since “upgrading” to Big Sur. An Apple Support tech tried a number of different things that did not help and escalated my case to “the engineers” a couple weeks ago. Still no resolution.

So I still can't make mine work. Weirdly it will search messages from a month ago or more, but will not search recent messages. So if I put the name of a colleague who emails me every few days into my search box, it will come up with his emails from prior to September, but no later.

Could this be because I have so many messages in my inbox?

I have tried removing the search box and reinstalling it. So glad this worked for others, but sadly not for me.

I just don't know what to do! I have to look on my iPhone for messages.

Mail search does not work for me in 11.6.2.

I am a single user. There are no other users on my computer.

I have tried all the suggested solutions--shift/open Mail; rebuild mailboxes; sync mailboxes; drag new search bar; make sure correct boxes are checked in System Pref Spotlight, etc..

Nothing works.

I can't force quit corespotlightd because that process does not show up in Activity Monitor "All Processes."

Search simply does not work. Zero results.

Ooops, spoke too soon. The app, "Copied" still has that issue.