Mac mail wont do searches

So Strange on my new MacPro If I type in anything in the search window its does nothing for a search.

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My mac mail will not search mail anymore and doesn't load attachments anymore

Does anyone know why this would be happening?
My mac mail will not search mail anymore and doesn't load attachments most of the time. When I enter some text in the search box no results come up and I know there are messages that contain the phrase that I've entered.
Also about 3 weeks ago attachments only get loaded about 1/4 of the way - if that. So I have to log onto my web based mail program from the host and retrieve attachements or check the messgae with my iphone.
Please - does anyone know how to fix this?

I figureed out that spotlight was turned off via terminal - I shut it off to unmount a disk (which didn't work anyways)
sudo mdutil -a -i on
that's the termianl command to turn spotlight back on. As far as my attachments not fully loading in mac mail on my iMac that still baffles me.

TS3276 Does anyone know the YAHOO authentication method and port? I recently installed the new OSX 10.8.2 software and my mac mail wont work.

Does anyone know the YAHOO authentication method and port? I recently installed the new OSX 10.8.2 software and my mac mail wont work.

Hello,
I have no idea what you're talking about, however my Mail stopped working when I
had to add a new e-mail address for my Hotmail account.
My new Hotmail address works, and seems to get e-mail from the old e-mail address,
which from I've read behaves as a "default" address for the old address.
Apple Mail is linked to my Hotmail account of the old e-mail address.
I no longer know my old password.
Apple Mail will not accept my new password for ny new Hotmail account.
Can someone help me solve this problem WITOUT COMPLICATED SOLUTION!
As I said I have no idea what a port, or SSL or authentication is!
If you do answer,please answer in vert simple steps that are easy to follow, and donlt make matters worse.
Thanks,
SB

Mac mail wont send from new address

I wonder if anyone can help me...I recently purchased a mac mail address for my girlfriend and i set it up. (anyone who has done this before will know that all you have to do is put your username and password in to set the @mac address up and all the rest is done for you). However, i can not send mail to her new address, nor can i send anything from her address. I can though send her mail on me.com, and i can also send and receive me.com mail from her mac. I have no idea what is going on. HEELLPP!!

I recently purchased a mac mail address
Are you sure it's a .Mac address, or is it a MobileMe address?
i can not send mail to her new address
Are you trying to send mail to that address from a different address, or from her own address?
What are the specific settings for the account (Incoming and Outgoing servers, port numbers for each, authentication method, and SSL status)?
Mulder

HT2500 Mac mail wont send or receive

Mac mail stoped working. I can get it on my icloud but can not send or receive in mac mail. I got a pop up on mac mail and answered it quickly....I may have messed something up?

Try this link, it helped me.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18033827#18033827

Mac Mail wont work on different internet

I am having a problem with my mac mail and I am hoping someone can help me.
I have a windows live account all set up and working fine and have done since I have had my macbook.
When I am at home, I can send and recieve emails with no problems at all, using my home Virgin Media braodband internet router.
However, when I am at my girlfriends, I can recieve emails, but not send any. I get this message:
"Connections to the server “smtp.live.com” on the default ports timed out.
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click Try Later to leave the message in your Outbox until it can be sent."
She has a BT Home Hub router, if this is any help.
Cheers!

you might want to try looking under your support on the computer. it may tell you there. you might just need your updates for the internet. ive had that problem on one of my other computers and that worked for me. but this problem im having doesnt seem to have a solution

Mac mail wont send

Mail suddenly stopped sending. meassage imap offline

Hi Tim,
Who is your eMail provider, the part after the @ sign?
In Mail's Window Menu, choose Connection Doctor, any red dots for status, if so what is the message?
Then click the Show Details button & Check again.
Mail: Can't send messages, "Cannot send message using the server smtp.xxxxx.com" alert appears...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1482

Profile changed and mac mail wont send..

i ahve a name macdoodle bu t now its chnged to alreadyhaveone
how do i get my orignial back..
please email [ Edited by Host, No personal information please. ]
i need to ask why allmail staring to ahng up in outbox of mailbox.
i set one server up to port 25 and one to port 587 and still,
right now 4 messages sitting..
anyhting to be done?

Hi alreadyhaveone a.k.a. macdoodle!
Is this your User Profile: macdoodle?
I suspect that you created a new account when you tried to log in.
What happens when you log in with macdoodle?
ali b

Read receipts in Mac mail.

I'll prefix this with the fact that I'm a total Macbook and Yosemite newb. As in I have not used a mac since 1992.
I thought I had found an article on how to send and receive read receipts in Mac mail, but after searching again, all I found was some obscure comments that read receipts were really not necessary, so it was not a big deal, and another article that showed how to create rules via the unix console...not really what I was looking for. I just was wondering if there is not a setting I am missing? Business people DO need, as a matter of doing business, require read receipts, for obvious reasons. If you are not in business or government this whole thread will be baffling and boring...sorry.
Finally , if not, will read receipts from gmail , show up in Mac mail if it is set up? ...or I would be just better to wash my hands of Mac mail, and use my Gmail, and if so, is there a way to do this...an extension perhaps, in Safari?
Thanks for any and all help.
Dave.

Rodolfo,
I guess you are missing my somewhat sarcastic sense of humour, and for that, I apologize.
Of course OS X can get viruses, malware and pesky adware. I was merely poking fun, at those, who are no so technically inclined, and tend to just "drink the koolaid" regardless of the established facts and body of evidence. I am acutely aware which operating systems are vulnerable and why. In my over 20 years of using computers for work and play, in my experience, UNIX has been the most secure...which is why it is the choice of governments' world-wide, and the least was WIN95-98. I had no virus' or malware at all with Win7...using MaCaffe, MalwareBytes, and SuperAdBlocker (which is a Chrome extension which seems to work fine on OS X) And no they did not slow down my machines (Norton did...very slow) Hackers find no challenge in writing for only 9% ( OS X ) of the units out there, as the 90% is a much bigger, and more lucrative target. It has nothing to do with the inherant inability for OS X to get viruses, malware or adware.
I am optimistic for the future of OS X, as it is slowly gathering steam, and garnering lots of attention from other platform users.
The biggest danger any any OS is smugness.
Dave

My mothers mac the safari dosent work right the mail the mail wont open up certain emails saying the plugin is blocked etc

my mothers mac the safari dosent work right the mail the mail wont open up certain emails saying the plugin is blocked etc

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.
If 10.7.0 or later...
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when trying to open Mail or Safari.

HT2954 How to search the content in Mac mail system?

I receive a lot of emails each day, some of the are dumped in the inbox. It is natural to search them later by typing some keywords. But the search engine performance is very bad compared to the the one of Gmail. I typed the same words, Mac mail showed there is no results. But Gmail gave almost all of them.

Hi, for my money, Spotlight is the worst serch engine since "Don't Find this.app"
But, are there options showing for From, To, Content & such?

Mac Mail Version 6.0 (1486) has stopped recieving mesages regularly and the search doesn't work

Mac Mail Version 6.0 (1486) has stopped recieving mesages regularly and the search doesn't work.
Since installing Mountain Lion, Mail seems to be very unresponsive. I have mac mail running on an iMac (which works fine) and a 2012 MacbookPro which is the one having the issues with the Mail app. Both computers are running on Mountian Lion.
When I scroll up in Mail for instance, the frame rate drops to about 5 a second.
When I click on a message it doesn't display it in the preview pane. Which is very annoying!
But I can get around the issue by double clicking on a message and it opens up the message in a new window.
When I search for a message, nothing appears in the results. Even if Im searching for something that is defiently there, eg if I type in my name, you'd think some results would come up. But when I click on something else, the results dispaly for about half a second. Bizarre. Is anyone else having this problem?

what kind of error in browser you are seeing?
is search service application never starterd or its started but cannot crawl?
did you see the timer jobs related to search services and what's their status?
so what about the search results from site collection?
also make sure this service "SharePoint Search Host Controller Service" started on all servers in the farm.
Please remember to mark your question as answered &Vote helpful,if this solves/helps your problem. ****************************************************************************************** Thanks -WS MCITP(SharePoint 2010, 2013) Blog: http://wscheema.com/blog
In the browser I receive the following error:
The search service app is running, doesn't crawl:
Yes, I can see the timer jobs related to search services, some of them are Succeded, others are Scheduled.
The service SharePoint Search Host Controller Service is started in the first server of the farm, but not in the second
one. When I try to start it, I receive the following error:
Windows could not start the Sharepoint Search Host Controller Service on Local Computer. Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly.
Melvintt
MCTS, Windows Server 2008 R2: Network Infrastructure
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Mac Mail AUTOCOMPLETE vs. SEARCH?

i am having fits with mac mail.
does anyone know if the SEARCH box uses the same information as the AUTOCOMPLETE?
i just tried to enter a person "giorgio" into an autocomplete to send them a mail and no autocomplete comes up. so then i go to the search box to enter this name and while no actual MAIL comes up (there should be i think at least in the On My Mac section) there IS an autocomplete for "From: Giogio Last Name").
is there some reason the search box finds a from and an autocomplete does not find the same name? also, does anyone know where the search box gets its information? right now when the search autocompletes it just autocompletes with the "From: Giorgio Last Name" and in order to try and grab the email i have to sort of hover midway so that search does not autocomplete and READ the email address it is showing before i make the selection and then manually type this into the To box in my email.
this is sort of inconvenient but also sort of confusing.

hi barney.
thank you. this is very helpful. for some reason both of these seem to be acting regularly weird and i was not able to figure this out.
for some reason Mail Search does not seem to return /any/ mail results for this search even though the /name/ shows up in the "From" dialog here. do you have any reason why this would be the case or how i might investigate further? i mean, presumably if a result is showing up here then there is in fact an email in Mac Mail that came "From" this sender and this mail would currently exist in either an IMAP account or in the ON MY MAC section is that right?
i am having a hard time figuring out how to research this since if the name shows up in the mail search but i don't see it in the search results - - hmmm - i guess i should manually search in the On My Mac section and in the IMAP inbox by sorting by from sender and alphabetically looking up this sender i guess? then i can provide more info on this?
also, same for the To autocomplete. i am almost positive that i have sent mail to this sender from my Mac Pro but i can check this easily by looking in the Window > Previous Recipients and manually looking up the name here, yes?
the search in particular has not been working well and i recently took online advice to follow a tech article about deleting some Mail folder file and rebuilding the index but this does not seem to be working AFAIK. seems odd to get a mail search result NAME but no actual MAIL showing up...

Mac Mail Search

I am having a problem with Mac Mail Search - In the mail search box I am not given the search options To, From, Entire Message etc - I am on a recently purchased macbook that has OS 10.6.4 and mac mail 4.3 -

This forum is for Apple's old productivity program 'AppleWorks': please post your question in the Snow Leopard Forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=263
Where I'm sure people will be eager to help you.

Search in Mac Mail not working or working very poorly

Just found this on MacRumors
Post this into Terminal to enable indexing. Why it gets turned off I don't know. I think there used to be a button for it in Spotlight prefs which isn't there now. I remember turning it off once as it seemed to interfere with the smoothness of the computer. If you had turned it off when you upgraded to the OS version where the enable indexing button is no longer there, it will stay off.
So to turn it on: enter this into terminal and enter your password.
sudo mdutil -E -i on /
It enables indexing again and fixes the dreadful search function in Mac mail.
Nige

You are confusing Google (or other internet) searches with knowledge. It's possible to find that just about anything is true with the right search.
Further, if you feel that finding someone else who said that Spotlight indexing was turned off means that your Spotlight indexing must be turned off is completely illogical. Was your indexing actually turned off? Well, we'll never know now, if you didn't check it before.
What the command you used does is: 1) erase the old Spotlight index, forcing it to be recreated, and 2) make sure indexing is turned on. Most likely your old index was damaged, so recreating it fixed your problems.

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