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search problems

Mac Mail doesn't return complete results when I run a Subject search.


I send about 3-4 emails each month using the same subject line each time - Details for our meeting. When I run a search, Mac Mail returns everything correctly, until about a year back, then skips all qualifying emails until 2018. If I manually scroll back in the account to find and open a qualifying email in the missing period, that email then will appear when I run the search again.


What's the deal?


MacBook, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 17, 2021 8:52 PM

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Posted on May 18, 2021 2:59 PM

Hi Robert!


It sounds like Mail isn't returning all of the relevant search results, and we're happy to help. You can try rebuilding your mailboxes as described here:


Rebuild mailboxes in Mail on Mac


Cheers!

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