After my update from MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion the search function in Apple Mail stopped working.
There were no or too little search results, when I typed something in the search field.
It looked like my mailboxes couldn't be indexed by spotlight anymore.
And here is the simple solution:
- Mark your mailbox in the list of mailboxes on the left in your apple mail window by clicking on its name once.
- From the menu select "Mailbox" => "Rebuild".
- After the rebuild you should get the right search results again.
- Proceed with Step 1-2 for all your mailboxes (also for every top-level folder that is stored under "local" in your list of mailboxes).
Posted to makandra dev (2011-12-30 19:04)