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Gmail not working in Smart Mailbox when iCloud Account is activated

I'm using Mac OS 10.11.1 on an iMac 27" (2011)


I use Apple Mail as a mail client and I have set up several Smart Mailboxes to show certain messages from some of the mail accounts i use.


The accounts I use:

1 icloud account

1 Exchange account

2 Gmail-Accounts


The Smart Mailboxes are set up to show mail from exchange, icloud and one of the gmail accounts.


And here's what happens:


When i upgraded to 10.11., mails from my gmail account were no longer shown inside the smart mailbox.

I checked the settings: Instead of my gmail account, mail had selected the icloud account a second time. I changed it back to gmail an closed the settings. I opened them again and the setting was changed back to icloud.


Long story short: The only way to show my gmail account in a smart folder is to deactivate the icloud-account in apple mail (which is not really an option).

This seems to be a real bug.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 3, 2015 2:42 AM

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Posted on May 3, 2017 11:01 PM

And here's the solution, or rather the explanation for the problem:

If you're using your gmail Adress as your apple-id (and therefore as your login credentials for your iCloud account) Apple Mail seems to get confused. Simply change your iCloud Username to something else and your good to go.

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Gmail not working in Smart Mailbox when iCloud Account is activated

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