Mail search not working

I had a similar issue (though unlike others who posted on this topic, I was able to search in Notes). When I searched in Mail, after upgrading to Monterey, I got no results.

I found a solution that worked for me, and it is in this post:

https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/fixing-broken-mail-search-macos/

I went through the first set of steps, which did not fix it. Then I did the second set (deleting the Mail.app indices - just as the instructions state) though mine were in V9 (for Monterey I suppose) and rebooted. My 78K messages took 11 minutes to load back in, and after a few minutes, Search appears to be working and I hope this helps you or others.

I had 4 calls with Apple Support, working through various tactics to fix this problem on my iMac. The last, and successful, solution was to rebuild Spotlight index. That solved the problem.

Rebuilding my Mailbox worked

https://macreports.com/mail-search-not-working-on-mac-fix/

Hi Mr. Vegas,

We'd love to assist you with searching Mail on your Mac. To start, can you tell us more specifically what is happening when you try to search Mail? Are you getting an error, a spinning circle, etc?

Also, does the issue still occur after restarting your Mac using the steps here: Shut down or restart your Mac

Lastly, does the issue occur in safe mode? If you are not familiar with the safe mode steps, you can follow the steps here: How to use safe mode on your Mac to get it done. Once in safe mode, you'd want to use the Mac as you normally would to see if the issue occurs again. You can tell when the Mac is in safe mode because on the desktop it will show the words Safe Boot in the top right-hand corner of the screen. 

Best regards

sfb71 The Spotlight index rebuild didn't help me. But the solution I mentioned in the link I posted did:

https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/fixing-broken-mail-search-macos/

My Mail search is working properly now.

Same problem here. I have install Monterey, since then mail search doesn't work!!

Please solve this ASAP, because it affect my work. I have 13k mail massages in inbox, so I can't search them one by one.

Regards

ME TOO!!!!

After the upgrade:

Mail search misses out January 2021 until the update in November 2021.

My flagged emails do not show under the respective flags.

Mail crashes every other day at least once (sometimes 3 x a day)

Today all flagged email folder simply disappeared.

Help. Please.

I reported this elsewhere also. Search does not work in mail or notes. Works in finder and apps (like preview).

I have rebooted twice. It simply spins. I have tons of emails from person I was searching and it normally searches in seconds. Now just spins.

Also Smart Mailboxes don't work.

I have the exact same problem. Why make a new operating system that doesn't work???? Please Apple solve this ASAP

This worked for me too.

Here is the report after a crash

This happens after every single MacOS release. You’d think Apple could figure this out by now.

Or maybe not as well as I hoped.