When I search in mail a lot of the emails that come up are from (no sender)? The emails themselves just contain all the text in a jumbled format from an actual email. Sometimes half the search results are these (no sender) and it makes it difficult to find what I'm looking for. Any idea on how to get rid of them. I'm running ElCapatain 10.11.3 on a 5k iMac.
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Not sure if this is still an issue for anyone but did you check your search parameters in the small toolbar near the top to make sure it's on "inbox" only? If I select "All" I also get a lot of (no sender) emails which look like they crawl random file attachments for text.
Mr. Jones,
Mail (El Capitan): Rebuild mailboxes may be helpful.
"You may need to rebuild a mailbox to update the list of messages it contains. For example, if messages appear to be missing or garbled, or if you can’t find all relevant messages when you search using the Entire Message search option."
What is interesting is that in the upper right of each of those messages it says "Files". Usually that area shows the mailbox where that message was found. You can see the ones below it said something like "Sent-CMP-Scott".
Thanks Ferd, gave it a shot but it did not work.
Here is another screen shot. I just noticed that all the jumbled text is from the PDF that was attached.
I also tried logging in to that account through office 365 (It's an exchange account) and the problem is not duplicated there.
Try the information in the following article -> http://www.cla5h.com/exchange-emails-in-sent-folder-have-no-sender-information-i n-header.html
Did you ever find a solution?
Try re-indexing the mailboxes. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.
Reindex messages For El Capitan, try looking in V3.
Reindex messages (2) See post by Linc Davis
I'm having a similar issue and it's only with my Outlook Exchange email account. One thing I find interesting is the my "No Sender" emails usually have an attachment and they are all stored in a "Files" folder under my Exchange mailbox. The "Files" folder is not displayed in the Outlook website-based app, nor is it displayed in the Outlook desktop app for OS X. Curiously, the Outlook iPad app has a "files" tab that keeps track of all attachments.
I use the search feature frequently and it's annoying to have a search populated with "No Sender" emails with attachment content displayed in text as in the picture above. I've since deleted the iOS version of Outlook on my iPad and still getting these No Sender emails. I've also tried rebuilding the mailbox and nothing. Hope a fix arises soon. I've already ditched Mail for Outlook on my desktop, but cant wait to go back to Mail.
After thinking about it for a bit I came up with a potential workaround. What I did was disable my exchange account in Mail. I then set up a new account. However, instead of letting Mail automatically configure the settings by choosing the Exchange option, I set up an account with manually configured IMAP settings. The Outlook Web App has the server settings for anyone to set up an imap eMail client. My new IMAP based set up no longer has the "Files" folder and the no sender emails no longer populate searches. I'll report back if I find any issues using this workaround.
I believe I solved this issue here:
Mac Mail odd folder with Exchange account
Let me know if it worked for you.
Have you solve this issue. we are having same kind of issue in "OS x EI capitan Version 10.11.6" mail client configured on office 365 account. please help us.
(No Sender) coming up in my search in mail
