macOS 10.12 Sierra and Mail 10: smart mailbox not working

Hi folks,

short update: found out that - after several days - spotlight indexing is still active. Hence strongly suppose that this Mail 10.0 quirk is down to indices not being ready to be read.

I'll update this post when indexing finished.

reg,

wolf

Hi folks,

update: the indexing service (mdworker) runs initially for a very long time. Afterwards indexing starts regularly after each system startup.

My take on this is: if you use the new storage management feature called Storage Management (Macintosh HD/System/Library/Core Services/Applications) that allows for allocating older files to be automatically uploaded to iCloud while more recent content remains on your HD. This of course is also true for mailboxes. So if you have mailboxes loaded with a couple of GBs Storage Management supposedly checks what can be uploaded to iCloud and what remains locally on your HD.

This explained it to me and solved my issue.

Hope this helps.

wolf

Hi Russel,

sorry for the late reply. Find below the storage configuration I used at the time.

But in addition I found that another hint could have helped my issue described in this conversation: Mail attachments on Sierra

Here the mail attachments folder is deleted and is later being rebuilt by macOS later. So should you have a couple of mails be prepared for some indexing (mdsworker, etc.). In addition, should you use the Mail app plugin MailTags by SmallCubed then check that you have the latest version. I discussed an issue with them and following a prefix forwarded by them I see an improvement to this issue.

Hope this helped.

reg,

wolf