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Why my search mail doesn't work?

I've already download the mountain lion and my search bar in the mail app only searches people and subjects of the mails What or how can I do to search any word or anything in my mails.


someone can help me please, where I can adjust this settings?


Thank you

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Aug 17, 2012 10:48 PM

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Posted on Aug 17, 2012 10:58 PM

When you search, you see subject, people and mails. To search in that, type and press Enter

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Sep 21, 2012 6:05 AM in response to SteveKir

When you type in the search bar, as you type you will see below a list of words/names that are close to what you're typing. They are separated by categories - subject/people/date. If you see what you're looking for in that list click on it and the message will be brought up. If you don't, look over to the left under the Mail tool bar and you will see "Search" slide into view. I'm not sure what the default is but I usually have to click on All next to this to bring up results from all mailboxes. Otherwise it may just search your Inbox. That's what is usually highlighted on mine until I click on All.

Mar 22, 2013 4:33 AM in response to ericfer

First, make sure that no message is selected in the Mailbox that you have selected for your search. If one or more are seleted, do CMND+CLICK on it or them to deselect them. (If one or more are slelected, I think that the search will b confined to those selectedmessages.)


Here are several screengrabs that go through what I do:


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Click on the selected item "Message contains: Amazon"



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Click on "Any"


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Choose what you want. As an example, choose "From"


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All messages from Amazon will then appear in Mail's usual column of messages which appears to the left of the area where you create messages, which at this moment has: "No Message Selected" under a graphic of an envelope.


Hope this works for you.

Why my search mail doesn't work?

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