Searching in Mojave Mail.app not working

Hi,

It looks like searching in Mail.app is not working correctly for me.

At least not like it was in High Sierra.

Even if I have a message open and search for the sender the search results will not show me the message.

I have tried deleting the Envelope Index files in the Maildata folder and letting Mail re-import the messages.

I have disabled the accounts and redownloaded all messages.

Nothing seems to work.

Any ideas ?


Paul

iMac, iOS 11

Posted on Oct 13, 2018 2:03 PM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2018 4:32 AM

I disabled spotlight and delete the indexes for / using mdutil -i off -E /.

After rexenabling them using mdutil -i on / and waiting for indexing to complete searching is working again.


Paul

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Searching in Mojave Mail.app not working

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