Mail Search Fail in Monterey

emiratefan wrote:

None of the solutions proposed have worked for me.

Interestingly, if you enter in Finder the name (or part of) of a person whose name was used in an email address, or part of the email address, and let it display for the whole Mac (i.e ignore the name "contains" option) Spotlight will display all the attachments in Mail that were sent to or from that address. The date of those may help locate some emails (clunky I know!) but also suggests Spotlight is indexing OK, and the bug is likely in Mail.

you can rebuild the shared Spotlight search database—

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

emiratefan wrote:

Yes you can. Spotlight works fine - doesn't fix the problems in Mail though......

Mail uses the spotlight database.

I would search from with in the Mail.app not the Finder....and compare your results.

Mail User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

Mail search and message search have been broken for me since I upgraded to Monterey in 2021.

I have open ticket and all advanced support can tell me is keep current with software updates.

I would really like Apple to raise the priority of this issue to Critical because I am sick n tired of searching mail from my IPhone!!!!!

This is utterly ridiculous. I need to search emails regularly, multiple times a day. Apple, fix this already, it's a real disservice to your users.