mail search

Try Spotlight. Click the Spotlight magnifying glass icon top right in your screen.

If you don't see any mail related results, open System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results

Select: Mail & Messages

Then try another Spotlight search.

Searching in Mail on OS X v10.9 Mavericks works fine here.

Believe it or not Mail Search is still stuffed up in Mail under Yosemite.

I reported this repeatedly to Apple until they removed the ability to report problems direct from Mail.

It's a complete shambles. tries to force you to search in certain ways that are not what you want to do.

Mail used to be a great application but Apple have stuffed it up badly along with Safari.

Couldn't agree more, Mail is a complete mess compared to the past and the fact they have removed the software from discussion confirms Apple knows it as well.

In the past you could select a name from the list and clicking on the header bar would display all mail from or to that person, no more. Search is mess compared to the past. Multiple copies of messages go to multiple folders, and those put in specific folders end up in others. Retrieving new mail from Gmail takes forever. I can't believe after Yosemite updates they haven't fixed it!

And Safari is as messed up, many times a day I have to go to Firefox or Chrome simply to get some websites to work properly.

With all that money, at least fix your core applications!

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Mail Feedback

Still a shambles. Major fail which Apple seems not to be the slightest bit concerned about. This leaves me wondering if Mail is set to be replaced by some other Apple junk.

Bump

Given they have billions in the bank maybe they should employ someone to watch this forum and produce weekly reports of the main issues and the mood of users. 😠