All emails missing from Inbox

The method is used in Mac OS Sierra to create filters .

Select one mail in inbox and click on flag sign to get it flagged .

Press command + L on the keyboard to create a filter ( shown with tiny black circle having horizontal lines ) , and then click on google .

Click on Unread , all mails will vanish from inbox and a right check mark is created before Unread .

Once again click on check mark to get all mails visible in inbox .

You wrote : The only connection with flagging is that I was trying to flag 1 email but my finger slipped from the Shift key to the Caps Lock one which made the emails vanish.

I tried to hold shift key + Caps lock mails didn't disappeared from inbox either you selected all mails and moved to On My Mac or somewhere else .

You , can select the important mails from Archive folder and move to inbox as IMAP account has property that carbon copy of all mails is always stored in the folder .

Definitely you can research on it , please read one more article : Mail for Mac: Rebuild mailboxes

And , if suppose IMAP account is corrupted personally prefer to save mails in user library > mail > V4 folder , delete the old account , and transfer V4 folder in new account .

Thanks !

tygb wrote:

You wrote : The only connection with flagging is that I was trying to flag 1 email but my finger slipped from the Shift key to the Caps Lock one which made the emails vanish.

I tried to hold shift key + Caps lock mails didn't disappeared from inbox either you selected all mails and moved to On My Mac or somewhere else.

He said he "Accidentally typed a COMMAND-L", which turns on filtering.

He's not asking about flagging.

Admittedly, I too am a bit lost on who said what.😁

This "Message Filtering" thing doesn't seem to work as advertised. I can turn it on and off with CMD-L.

But I don't see any of the buttons that other's see. Wonder why?

I think you must have enabled message filtering. Try:

Mail > View > Disable Message Filter

to switch it off.