4 ms·
Mail has always been spotty, but Mail's search completely stopped working for me around the time I upgraded to Big Sur. Currently, it finds only a few random s
by atombender 6y ago
Mail has always been spotty, but Mail's search completely stopped working for me around the time I upgraded to Big Sur.
Currently, it finds only a few random scraps and doesn't search the entire mailbox. Spotlight still works; searching by the text in Spotlight shows a match, but clicking on the match (to open it in Mail) does nothing. I've tried rebuilding the mailbox and I've tried wiping the entire Mail directory; nothing works. Apparently other people have the same issue, but I haven't found a solution.
This is too bad, because Mail.app is probably the most functional, no-nonsense client for macOS. I've tried some others (Airmail, Spark, Polymail, etc.), but they have a lot of usability issues and weird features (like Sparrow's team support) that are irrelevant to me.
- kstrauser 6y agoUgh, by default Mail.app just searches in the current mailbox. When you start a search, on the top of the left sidebar, just above your list of mailboxes, a new “All Mailboxes” folder will appear. Click that to search the whole app. I don’t know why they did this. I don’t know who was asking for it.
- atombender 6y agoIt's an annoying change, I agree, but in my case that's not the problem. The search is just broken.