How to search in Mail for a date range on Mac?

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How to search in Mail for a date range on Mac?

How to search Mac Mail for a date range? For example May 1, 2025-June 30, 2025. If I enter in the search field: 01.05.2025, I get the date search for that one day, i.e. there is a calendar icon with May 1, 2025 next to it (see screenshot below), and I can click on it. How do I get the same calendar icon, for a date range? 01.05.2025-30.06.2025 does not work (see screenshot).

Aha, I think I figured it out. The mails listed in the Message List look to be within that date range. However, there is NO calendar icon appearing under the search field. Is that normal?

iMac (M1, 2021)

Posted on Feb 17, 2026 8:32 AM

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pnor.pnor Author

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Feb 17, 2026 9:54 AM in response to Phil0124

Yes, this works as well as using a hyphen. So, "DD.MM.YYYY to DD.MM.YYYY" gives the same result as "DD.MM.YYYY-DD.MM.YYYY." Message List shows messages within that date range, but NO calendar icon appears below the search field.

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Feb 17, 2026 8:51 AM in response to pnor.pnor

Instead of the dash use the word "to".

Like:

Search a timeframe or range of dates: Type a date range, such as “04/02/23 to 04/19/23.”

click here ➜ Search for emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

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Feb 17, 2026 11:10 AM in response to pnor.pnor

The Calendar icon is not shown for date ranges.

You can tell Apple about it and if enough people do they may want to update it to show the calendar icon.

click here ➜ https://www.apple.com/feedback/mail/

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pnor.pnor Author

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Feb 17, 2026 9:55 AM in response to pnor.pnor

BTW, it seems that (in Canada) the format for a specific date search in Mail on Mac has to be DD/MM/YYYY. It does not depend on how I have set up Date Format in Settings. Took me quite awhile to figure this out.

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Feb 17, 2026 9:35 AM in response to pnor.pnor

Ignore this post. The previous replay was not showing up, so I replied again only to see the previous reply appear.

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