Mail search filter bug

Search or filter you emails with some criterias . Click a mail in the list of results to read the contend. After some seconsd the results disappear and you are again in the inbox.
Who cans that verify or confirm?
Thanks Christian

Same problem, very frustrating. Even resorted to a clean install and the problem persists. 10.9.1 (also in 10.9.2 btw).

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Mail search field bug

Help help! (And my english is not super duper. I hope I can explain problem)
My Mail search will only look in the fields 'To', 'Cc' or 'Bcc' when given something to search for.
If I search for a topic or a thing, nothing comes up, and names does not show up if the name is in the 'From' field. It is really frustrating.
Anyone knows anything about this bug? I have made my spotlight reindex itself, that did not help. I am wondering if there are any preferences for the mail search field that I can reset somewhere or what???
Hoping to get help
Hanna

Same problem, very frustrating. Even resorted to a clean install and the problem persists. 10.9.1 (also in 10.9.2 btw).

[EWS][Java] How can I use the Search Filter only mails with attachments?

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I'm trying to search a folder ( doesn't matter which ) for ONLY mails with attachments.
How can I use the search filter for that purpose?
Thanks!

You can drag the attachment collumn from settings and sort on that collumn
In the main Outlook window, on the View menu, point to
Current View, and then click Customize Current View.
Click Fields. In the Available fields list, click the field that you want to add, and then click
Add.
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IOS8 Mail search bug, duplicates in random order!

Does anyone know of a fix for iOS mail search duplicate results, in random order?
When searching in Mail on iOS 8 (and iOS 7 before), on an Exchange 2010 hosted account (like Rackspace) the search results are all duplicated, and in random order, making Mail search almost useless, and very frustrating for business users.
I've reported this through Apple's official bug report website, and repeatedly been told my report matches other's previously reported bug reports, and so my reports are Closed... but never Fixed! My understanding of what happens is, Spotlight searches the locally-stored Mail, then sends the search request to the server via ActiveSync, and of course duplicate results come back (since it is synced email, duh!) but iOS doesn't resolve the duplicates, and then puts them in random order. This doesn't seem to happen for IMAP, but business users don't always have a choice, and need to connect via ActiveSync for work, and always need to search mail given the quantity... Please Apple, email and email search are still central to mobile devices, especially for business users. Please fix!

I have the same problem and in addition I see search results with blue dots indicating they are drafts, however they appear to be have the same text content as the versions of the emails that were sent (and are also showing up in the search results). When I click through to that email from the search results it opens as a draft email ready to be (re) sent. I don't know if these are partially complete drafts that were saved somewhere while I was writing the email (an issue I saw referred to regarding OSX Mail app search result problems).
The outcome is I often see 5-6 versions of the same email showing up in search results rendering the spotlight search useless. This is a major issue for me as ease of search was a big plus for me as a blackberry user, and in finally making the transition to IP6 /iOS 8 I am really frustrated in not being able to find emails quickly through search.
I raised this with the head of the genius bar at our local store and he had no ideas on it and had not seen the problem before.

Mavericks Mail Search Not Working

When I try to search in mail nothing happens. I have rebuilt and reindexed the mail box's still no change.
What do I need to do?

You need to re-index Spotlight cache files.
HOW TO RE-INDEX YOUR SPOTLIGHT CACHE FILES
Option 1)
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
* Click Spotlight.
* Make sure Mail & Messages is checked under the Search Results tab.
* Click the Privacy tab.
* Drag your drive and/or Identity to the list. Wait a couple of minutes.
* Remove the item you added.
* Spotlight will re-index the contents of the item you initially dragged to the list.
Option 2)
Follow the steps here.
Use OS X Recovery Disk Assistant to reset Your files and folder permissions
Note: you might want to use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions and Repair Disk while booted from the Repair Drive.
When you restart Spotlight will reindex your entire drive.
Option 3)
Copy the text below and open Terminal (in /Application/Utilities). Paste the code into the Terminal window at the prompt.
sudo mdutil -E /
You will be asked for your administrator password (and if you've never used the sudo command you'll need to accept the warning presented). When you type your password, it will look like nothing is being typed. That's normal. Once you've typed your administrator password, press Return.
This will completely remove the Spotlight index and force a new one to be created. Probably not necessary, but I would immediately quit Terminal and restart your Mac.
SUMMARY:
Depending on your Mac and the contents of it's hard disk, re-indexing may take several hours. Doing this overnight is a good option if you have a large drive.
You can tell if it's still in progress by simply looking at the Spotlight menu: There's a blinking dot in the middle of the magnifying glass while indexing is occurring. You can also open Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities and type in md in the search filter. You should see mdworker32 and mdworker. mdworker32 is the Microsoft Outlook Spotlight index and mdworker is for system.
Until this process is finished, Spotlight won’t know the contents of your disks and neither will Mail.

Cannot use Mail Search in Yahoo

Firefox 6.0.2
Using Mail Search in Yahoo brings up blank page. Search function works in IE and Chrome.

Known issue, our QA team working on it, See
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713014
you can follow the bug by opening bugzilla account and add to CC list :)

Mail Search unreliable?

Can anyone point me to a detailed explanation of how the mail Search works please?
I can't make sense of some of the results. For example, assuming it searches for text strings matching the one specified, I'd expect dozens or hundreds of hits for the string I just entered, with From as the filter. I get just one. That was an email received in the last few minutes from someone with that string in their name. But I had several yesterday and earlier this week, and many more over the last few months.
Terry, UK

Thanks, but I'm aware of that and have been searching All Mail.
Terry, UK

Firefox 19 MISSING Bookmarks Library's Search filter feature, why?

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Has anyone else noticed the following issue?:
Re Firefox 19.0 Bug/Broken Feature
MISSING Bookmarks Library's Search filter feature.
ie: select "Show All Bookmarks" => enter a search string in 'Search Bookmarks' eg:win
=> MISSING "Search in:" filter(s)
This has been present in all previous Firefox versions before 19.0, and it is a VERY VALUABLE feature.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thank You Very Much,
Roberta

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White Alice0775].

LDAP Search filter Jabber for Android

Hi,
I have this LDAP Filter which only shows me active users:
<BaseFilter>(&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person)(!UserAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))</BaseFilter>
I have the same line for Jabber for Android, but it doesn't work.
<BDIBaseFilter>(&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person)(!UserAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))</BDIBaseFilter>
I get 0 results for any search on Jabber Andorid. When I delete the "BDI" Line for the filter all together, then I get correct results - with photos and everything.
I also tried a simple filter e.g:
<BDIBaseFilter>(!UserAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))</BDIBaseFilter>
No search results either.
Any ideas how to get Filter for Android working?
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CUCM: 9.1.2

I think I found the coresponding messages in the log:
csf.person.ldap: [LdapSearchQueryHandler.cpp(51)] [start] - reqId = 2
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1482)] [sendSearchQuery] -
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15477 I csf.person.xmpp: [XMPPPersonRecordSource.cpp(268)] [fetchContacts] - Entering.
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1531)] [sendSearchQuery] - filter = (&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person)(!UserAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)(|(sAMAccountName=at1sath))), baseDN=OU=Organization,DC=at,DC=customer,DC=net
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15477 D services-dispatcher: [ServicesDispatcher.cpp(147)] [pumpNext] - pumpNext.executed (ContactsAdapter::LoadContactsFromSource)
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1576)] [sendSearchQuery] - ldap search error. rc= -7 ,msg=Bad search filter
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1675)] [notifyListenersSearchRequestCompleted] - errorCode=-7
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15477 D services-dispatcher: [ServicesDispatcher.cpp(145)] [pumpNext] - pumpNext.executing (ContactsAdapter::LoadContactsFromSource)
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1258)] [mapErrorNo] - Code = -7, Msg=Bad search filter
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapSearchQueryHandler.cpp(84)] [onSearchRequestCompleted] - reqId = 1, errcode = 9
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1531)] [sendSearchQuery] - filter = (&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person)(!UserAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)(|(sAMAccountName=at1hafr))), baseDN=OU=Organization,DC=at,DC=customer,DC=net
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1576)] [sendSearchQuery] - ldap search error. rc= -7 ,msg=Bad search filter
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1675)] [notifyListenersSearchRequestCompleted] - errorCode=-7
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapDirectoryImpl.cpp(1258)] [mapErrorNo] - Code = -7, Msg=Bad search filter
02-26 09:18:59.851 15477 15645 D csf.person.ldap: [LdapSearchQueryHandler.cpp(84)] [onSearchRequestCompleted] - reqId = 2, errcode = 9
The next question is now: Why is it a bad search filter? And what is the correct one? The same filter works on jabber for windows...
BR, Dave

Apple Mail Search is acting strange

Hello.
I have been having some major issue with Apple Mail (6.5) in its search function.
I have been a heavy user of Apple Mail (over 15,000 emails on the program- and archived every year) for many years, and never had this issue.
When I search for a key word it does not find it! I noticed that this not to work on emails in my In Box or Sent Boxes (Gmail email POP). If I move a specific email to a newly created folder On My Mac and then search, the keyword will be found in the email in that new folder- but never on the orignal Inbox or Sent Box! Also, the search works fine for senders of emails (by name) if I search for them.
The issue is mainly in finding a key word in the content of an email and particurly in the In and Sent boxes!
I tried EVERYTHING I could find online from reindenxing the whole Macintosh HD, deleting Envelope Files... I even deleted Apple Mail and then reinstalled it from Mountain Lion DVD! STILL same issue.
To test things, I exported Mailboxes to another Macbook Air I have (brand new) and then imported these mailboxes into the correct location (Inbox, Sent...etc), and the search there worked fine!
ANY IDEAS, as this is frustrating and I am seriously considering switching to new email client after all these years.
Thanks,

The mail search uses Spotlight to find results, so your problem may be more of a corrupted Spotlight index. To recreate your Spotlight index, go to System Preferences->Spotlight, click the Privacy tab at the top, and add your Boot drive here (usually Macintosh HD). Close and re-open this preference page and then remove the Macintosh HD from the privacy tab.
Within about 30 seconds, you should notice the Spotlight magnifying glass icon in the top menu bar will say it is indexing, and it may take about 15+ minutes to complete. Hopefully that will return your missing search results in the Mail.app.

Archive folder missing from Mail & search not working

I've been having trouble getting the Archive mailbox to appear in Mail. What's worse, often the search function is broken, and Mail doesn't turn up any search results. I've found some ways to get the Archive folder to reappear, but these only seem to help temporarily. For instance, clicking on the gear at the bottom left and selecting "Get Account Info" then selecting the Archive folder causes it to reappear, but this is only temporary and it disappears after another restart or sometimes after an hour or two. The search not working is the worst, as it sometimes is working and sometimes isn't. I don't have any idea what's causing this, but I am at my wit's end because I NEED Mail to be firing on all cylinders.

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
What are your selections in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced for this Gmail account, if using IMAP, regarding keeping message for Offline use? The Mail search can only access the list of messages to search Subject, From, etc, but not the entire message unless copies of all messages are being kept on the computer. This would be true for any IMAP account, btw.
More info, please.
Ernie

Spotlight & Mail Search Not Working After Deleting email Account's '.OfflineCache' File. How Do I Get Back to Normal?

Running OSX 10.7.4 and Mail.5.2.
One of 3 email accounts was constantly trying, but unable to synch. The rotating splines were turning non-stop but not synching (other two email accounts worked just fine.) After doing some searching on the internet, I found several articles about this. Many included the symptom of the "Recovered Messages" constantly being recovered/generated. I had noticed that I would get some recovered messages on occaision, but had never noticed it to be problematic. These articles suggested that the ".OfflineCache" file for that email account had been corrupted or the root of my problem. So, I deleted the .OfflineCach file as per this article...
Fix OSX Mail Creating Multiple 'Recovered Message
Well that got my mail working again. However, I soon noticed that spotlight no longer works and when I try to search mail, it doesn't work. It will only return a complete email address/contact; it doesn't search the contents of the email.
I tried to get spotlight to re-index the hard drive. However, when I try to drag a folder or volume to it, I get the error:
Since spotlight and mail search have always worked flawlessly for 5 years, I'm confident this is related to having deleted " .OffflineCache" for that particular email account. However, it seems strange that mail search won't work for the other email accounts.
Any other tips for getting spotlight back online?
How about the .OfflineCache file. Will Mail restore it, replace it on it's own?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also, looking back, not long before this problem started, I was trying to send a single email with numerous pictures ( around 50 or so.) I forgot to select "medium" for the picture size and it started trying to upload them at full size. I realized this after a minute or two and cancelled the upload, changed to 'medium' and sent the email with no problem. I point this out because the "Multiple Recovered Messages" error seems to be related to or being induced by having an excessively large file in the particular mail account's .Offline.Cache file.

Well, a couple days later and it seems that the .offlinecache has been rebuilt. Finder, Spotlight, & Mail search all seem to be working normally now!

Mail search not working

I've tried several times to perform a search for the word "marin" in my emails... I know that a guy emailed me a week or so ago and said he was in Marin county, so I know that it's there...but for some reason when I search for it within Mail, no results come up.
I decided to try this with a bunch of different words... none of them work. The only way I'm able to search for content within my messages is to search by name in the "To" or "From" sections of the search menu...
Any suggestions?

make sure your Mail folder is indexed by spotlight. go to system preferences->spotlight->privacy pane. what do you have there? if Mail folder is not excluded try reindexing your home directory. add your home folder to the privacy pane for about 5 seconds and remove it from there. it should be reindexed. if that does not help reindex the whole hard drive in the same way. try mail search then.

Mail search not working properly

Just upgraded to ML and the search function in mail just isn't working properly, I didn't think the Lion mail search was great but this one seems 10 times worse. If I search for words contained within a message, the results only show messages from the last couple of months even though I know there's dozens of messages containing the same word from the last couple years.
I tried repairing permissions and rebooting. Still same issue.
If I manually open an old message, and then perform a search, that particualar message will get included in the results, but I can't open thousands of emails just for the search to index them.

You should try rebuilding your Spotlight index, as that's what Mail uses.
Go to Spotlight preferences, and drag your boot drive (probably called "Macintosh HD") into the privacy pane. Say OK to the warning. Then after about 10 seconds, remove it. The whole drive will be re-indexed (this will take a couple hours) and then search should work again.

Mail search not working + Spotlight keeps indexing

I have an old problem that has resurfaced after creating a new user on my Mac. Mail search brings no results and Spotlight is constantly indexing - day in, day out. It never seems to get there. I tried turning my hard drive to private in Spotlight settings and then taking it out. Previously Spotlight seemed to get bogged down with external drives now it's stuck indexing my Mac.
Any advice? Is there a way I get unstick this?

I can't believe that Apple have STILL not sorted this out. I haven't created a new user (so it's nothing to do with that), but Mail.app won't find anything when searching "Entire Message" in the current Mailbox or in "All Mailboxes". This has been ongoing since Leopard was first released, and we are now up to 10.5.8 without this being fixed.
Here are some of the reports:
Topic : Spotlight does not search Mail messages
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1366101
Topic : Search "Entire Message" returns "0 Found" in mailboxes
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1341832
Topic : Spotlight died on me
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1226645
Topic : I can't search through my inbox!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1387827
Topic : Leopard's Spotlight doesn't search Mail messages
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1219030
Topic : Mail Search
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1347387
Topic : Mail Won't Search
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1204827
Topic : Search does not work
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1254966
Topic : Mail search not working
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1289253
Topic : Unable to Search Mailbox
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1232504
Topic : Why is Search in Mail.app busted?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1403758
Topic : Mail Search comes up empty
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1378473
Topic : Search "Entire Message" not working with Smart Mailboxes?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6548355&#6548355
Topic : Mail searches yield no results! Smart mailboxes also yield no results!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1395508
Topic : 10.5.2 Mail.app search still not working (Entire Message)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1389466

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