Apple mail no longer searches by sender contains

You can search "From: Michael" (hit return)

I think that will be similar to "sender contains"

it does if you just put a name in. If you use “from: something.tld” you will get all senders that have an email @something.tld. No need for the @, but it works, too.

What happened when you used the from: search token with that domain?

But, it isn't going to give you a list of people. It will give you a list of messages where the sender matches what you put after from:

Bunchayahoos wrote:

I will get emails from many people at one company - Adobe for example. When I am searching for an email most times I don't remember exactly which person sent it. I need to see all emails from adobe. I used that search function ALL THE TIME!! A mediocre program just got much worse.

from: adobe.com doesn't work for you?

Thanks Barney. This worked for me.

More specifically I searched... "From: lowes" and found an email confirming an order that I could not find previously just searching "lowes". The actual incoming address was: d****@no****com

Wish it would search domains anyway, but at least I now know how to. Let's hope I don't forget before I need it again.

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What happens if you use the “from: domain” search format?

I delete most of my emails, so my ability to get large numbers of results is a bit limited.

it brings up emails with the from:nnn term in the address and in the subject but not all the domain results I’m looking for. It works better if I don’t use “from:” but just type the domain in the search bar and hit ‘search’

It doesn't add the token, "sender contains," it just shows the name that matches. If you select that name, it matches From: Name

Just to chip in which how I experience and interpret this issue, why its a problem for me and the listed solutions don't really work.

I work with many clients, often with many people from an organisation. Often I can't exactly remember the domain the sender sent a message from, or who sent it.

for example, I work with the company, lets call them Pear. I deal with maybe 5 people from that company. Their domain is something odd like, pear-comms.com - something it's tricky to remember when you also deal with 100 other companies. I also can't remember exactly who sent the message - all I know is that, sometime in the past, I got a request from their organisation.

I used to be able to type "pear" in the search bar and it said sender-contains:pear and I could see all the emails that came from that company. Now I need to find out what the sending domain is from that company is first, it's a pain.

For example, what prompted this search was searching for an email from the local university in my town, named for the town we are in. If I search for the name of the town, I get hundreds of results. The autocomplete contains a lot of TLDs, none of which are the University. I need to go and find out what the actual TLD for them is, which either means searching online or scrolling through my emails, of which there are many.

I don't understand why a feature like this would be removed. it's very odd.

JorgeLuisBorges wrote:

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I don't understand why a feature like this would be removed. it's very odd.

I use an email client that does what I need it to do. If the built-in email client is not doing what you need it to do, Apple has provided the capability for you to use whatever email client meets your needs. Just install an email client that meets your requirements and use it.

You can type in from: pear and any emails with pear in the sending address will appear. No the right answer I know.

The current search function turns up senders who I have not corresponded with for years and not the recent ones.

Yes I have the same issue, it is very not smart to have removed that feature..

It seems more and more good features of Apple Mail are disappearing..

Are there only juniors in Apple company who never use Apple Mail?

The feature From a domain is very very usefull

I still can't understand why this has been removed

And by the way the search function in Mail of iPhone is really not working well

What are you paid for guys !!??

I’d like to see the list of all emails from a company domain. If I type From:company or From:@company, it only shows 3 emails from 2022 then lots from 2020 and before. There should be dozens from 2022 and 2021 and a few from 2023

So what you are saying is that the option/drop-down "sender contains" is no longer available, and instead we have to write manually "from:" or "to:" making it less user-friendly, is that it?

Remember that IF mac users wanted to be programmers, they would use ms windows...