

If your Mail folder or subfolders appear in the list, just remove them with the little “-“ button.Open Spotlight and check the Privacy tab.If you’ve accidentally blocked Spotlight from indexing your ~Library/Mail folder, this could be the cause of the problem.Ĭheck Spotlight’s permissions as follows: Mac OS X actually uses Spotlight to search for message content, so the most likely cause is an issue with the Spotlight index itself.įollow each of the steps below until your issue is resolved.

Mail is actually rebuilding the index, which should in most circumstances fix the issue.Īs already mentioned, message content is indexed and searched completely independently from headers. Now restart Mailand you’ll see a message informing you that it has to import your messages.
