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Mail search does not work after Sierra

I upgraded my system to the latest Mac OS - Sierra. After the upgrade search in mail does not work, it just comes up blank.

I removed accounts and remade them. no luck

I run IMAP so I told mail to rebuild - no luck

Booted to safe mode - Found nothing.

Before the upgrade it worked fine now I have to jump to my mail server account to search for mail - such a pain and it is not complete, will not search folders on the mac in mailboxes.

Any ideas?

I have the same problem.  When upgraded, Internet Accounts directed me to verify account - add password.  When the password inserted, comes back with "unable to verify account name or password", yet don't have the same problem on MacBook pro running El Capitan.  Why won't the internet Account setting accept the proper name and password.  Help because I'm stuck - and won't upgrade to Sierra on any other computer.

Apple, you continually let us down with upgrades.  Always problems with no solutions provided.  Please help with this.  I have 22 POP accounts.

It worked fairly well before I upgraded to Sierra.
It does nothing now even when trying to search something very obvious like my name or my email address or even copying a subject and pasting into search.
Why create and distribute an operating system

Hi Sterling r, I've done as suggested except reinstall macOS (I'm afraid it will just get worse). I have created another account with admin rights and set up the mailbox on my Gmail. When I do a search on anything, nothing will come up, just a blank result! So it is defiantly not an account issue.  I deleted all the index files in MailData folder and that didn't do anything except Mail just reindexed. I restored from my Time machine and that didn't do any good either.  If I can revert back to my old OS I will. Obviously, there is an issue with Sierra with Mail.

Tom

Hi KSinKS, I have exactly the same problem. 1) I started my mac in Safe mode, that didn't do anything except making my Mac taking longer to start up now! 2) Created another account with admin rights and created a Gmail account in Mail and same thing again - blank result when search, 3) deleted all the index files so Mail will reindex - not good.

I definitely will NOT reinstall Sierra on my other Mac. If I can only reinstall back the older version of OS.

Tom

this fixed my issues- took 10 minutes to re-index:

The vacuum command will rebuild the email database, not the mailboxes:

1. Quit Mail
2. In Terminal, paste this command and hit return:
      /usr/bin/sqlite3 "$HOME/Library/Mail/V4/MailData/Envelope Index" vacuum
3. Restart mail.

Call tech support.  They are not charging if your computer is out of warranty.  My email keeps losing my attachments.  They just disappear.

Try rebuilding your Spotlight index, as this is what Mail uses to search.

To do so, go to System Preferences->Spotlight and then choose the "Privacy" tab. Once you're there, add your boot drive (default name is "Macintosh HD") to the list by clicking the + icon and adding it.

Wait about 10 seconds, and then select Macintosh HD and remove it from the list using the minus key.

Give your Mac 3 hours and check again.

Hi Bill,

on my late model iMac, attempting this is not possible- comes up with an error and 'null' message. Try the vacuum procedure, is the only fix I found that works, byee BM

This did not work for me, no difference noticed

This did not work either,

I have reinstalled the OS without wiping the disk trying to see if I can get it searching,... did not work.

I upgraded another iMac 27 I have and it too has other strange issues. i.e. something so simple as the screen saver clock rotates the hands around the screen and not within the clock.  ??

Apple OS's seem to be unstable for a few seasons now, what is up with them?

hi, may be a different issues behind your problem. One more way to fix: download latest version of ONYX, and run ALL maintenance procedures- there are a number of cache and index clearing and rebuilding tasks onyx does very well. hope this works for you. Link below:

https://www.titanium.free.fr/onyx.html

Hi William,

The spotlight index rebuilding only worked for a short time.

I performed the procedure you described the night before. The next morning the rebuilding appeared finished (processes belonging to "_spotlight" were not consuming CPUs). I started Mail and gladly found that search was working. But, an hour or two later, it quit working again!!!

In reference to trying to Reindex Spotlight (System Preferences->Spotlight and then choose the "Privacy" tab) by adding/removing your Mac HD, I'm using a new iMac 5K running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 and trying to add anything to the Privacy tab (either with the + button or by dragging and dropping) the same alert message (screenshot attached) is shown.  Doesn't really matter the size or type of file that's added, the result are the still the same.

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