mail search function not working in MacOS Sonoma

macOS Sonoma I am having trouble with M365 and email search. I have had my new MacBook pro about one week, when I enter a company name or equipment name in search bar on outlook. Search always comes back "No Results" One customer I just received email, I put his name in search and come back "no results" Another issue is Lacie External Hard drive, when I go to export emails to Lacie Hard drive the following appears "OUTLOOK ERROR EXPORTING DATA NO ACCESS TO DIRECTORY". Thanks for your assistance

I have the same problem with the search bar in Mail not working since I upgraded to Sonoma.

Search bar in Notes also not working.

This morning in installed 14.1.2 hoping there would be a bugfix in there.

No, still same problem. [iMac with Apple M1 chip]

No luck. I made progress with the log out/log in of iCloud method. This restored search in Calendar for instance, but not in Mail. As it was better I thought that maybe only the Mail index was still wrong and I trashed the infamous envelope folders in Mail data. This brought back the "Import Mail" process which as before failed in the end although I have no disk space or error problem. Someone on reddit advised to disable accounts and import one by one to see if one in particular was failing. Good idea but all failed ! I then went nuclear and killed all my Mail data. I then reconfigured one account and let the server resync and download 30'000 mails and some. And then I tested search in that account and it FAILED.

So I am out of options now. I restored my data from TimeMachine and am back to square one. Not ready for a clean install yet. I have configured another mailer which works but misses some basic functions I need.

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Been having same issue since moving to Sonoma. Last week it actually worked for a couple of days, but that ended again just after the latest update.

I have tried everything as well.

come on Apple do better

And the bad news for me is that signing out of iCloud and signing in again did not continue to work after restarting. Nor does it work now.

Booting is Safe mode still does not help.

I suspect I may have to do a full re-build. My admin account is not behaving quite as it should after some glitch when building first time round. Doesn't always recognise me as an admin which isn't fantastic.

Oh well.....

Not sure it has to do with your chip. I have a Mac with M1 chip and no issues using search with Sonoma. Does it work in the previous OS?

This Terminal process in this thread worked for me to fix the issue on my Mac Mini w/M1

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16ua0ur/mail_search_broken_after_sonoma/?rdt=59832

Current user profile / setup is obviously a possible cause, however I am also having this problems since upgrading and as above have tried all the solutions provided on the web.

All search functions not working. Spotlight only returns chrome links, mail, setting, notes, none work.

Mail crashes on searching - just upgraded to Sonoma. Have MacBook Pro 16 with intel chip.

I have the same exact issue. Found a way to fix it?

Mail is not the only program whose search function abruptly stopped working as soon as I updated my OS to Sonoma.

I have the search problem - but have never had GoodNotes on my machine. Might there be a 2nd cause?

I have the same problem with my Mac Studio, M1 Max/32GB. Once you type the fourth character in the search box in Mail the program terminates and a problem report pops up.

Never had GoodNotes on this computer.