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Re: Mail.app problem

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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> You couldn't be more wrong. You've apparently never actually used Spotlight
> / mdfind if that's what you think. The entire *point* of Spotlight is that
> it searches the actual *contents* of files rather than just file names! And
> that includes mail, contacts, calendar events, and all sorts of other
> things that don't necessarily have files that are accessible as such
> (databases and so on).

If you say so, but it doesn't work on mine like that so I'll assume
spotlight is broken here. I never see any results from Library/Mail using
short phrases, long ones or even peoples names.

Going back to the OP's problem, since he hasn't come back with any of these
suggestions working, maybe he just needs to rebuild the mailboxes (Mailbox
-> Rebuild) and see what happens.

One of the OS releases (pretty sure Mavericks) I ran into something similar
where I though one of the mailboxes was truncated, it should of had more in
it than what was there but no clue if "Search" returned anything.

I also don't remember if that version had Rebuild as "Rebuild Mailbox" where
it only worked on the selected mailbox, but after doing them all, it fixed
things up.

I'm curious about this because if you go back and read what he said,
"somehow I deleted all the messages before Aug 2016 (or whatever)", that's
actually pretty hard to do by accident, if you think about it.

I never found any explanation on what "Rebuild" actually does but since it
seems to touch/mess with local mailboxes (On My Mac), it probably reads in
the messages from the mailboxes and rebuilds the index headers and doesn't
need to look at the pop/imap servers.

In the OP's case, maybe whatever mailbox the email he is seeing doing a
Search has a bad database file that is loaded for Mail (so it doesn't show)
but the Search is using Spotlights database and is telling mail where the
mail message is.

Maybe instead of doing all this grep/find/mdfind voodoo if he just runs that
Rebuild command it might do what it's supposed to do and fix the problem.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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        Re: Mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-14 06:09 +0000
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            Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-15 02:30 +0000
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