[OSX-Users] searching Apple mail on Mac??

[Jules Field]

Personally I wouldn't use anything but Thunderbird.
Talks IMAP+SMTP to the world, and has lots of add-ons available.
(I use "Display Mail User Agent", "Mail Redirect", "Mailbox Alert" and 
"QuoteCollapse".)

The only thing it doesn't do well is automatically handle calendar 
invitations with iCloud calendars. I *believe* that bit works with 
Exchange calendars, but I don't personally use them. It does display all 
calendar invitations very nicely though, so you know exactly what to put 
in your calendar.

I have multiple accounts, multiple identities in each account, multiple 
(ever-changing) signatures in each account/identity, and at least 30 
"favourite" folders at any time, where I only want to see the favourites 
but be able to get to others fairly easily.

Jules.

On 28/11/2016 09:07, m.c. schraefel wrote:
> Thanks
> Will give that a try.
> If not mail app what?
> mc
>> On 28 Nov 2016, at 09:06, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> See this:
>> http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476217/mac-os-x/mac-os-x-how-to-fix-apple-mail-by-rebuilding-and-reindexing-the-mailbox.html
>> Assuming you've already done Step 1, give Step 2 a go as well. That's helped me in the past (when I used Mail.app).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jules.
>>
>>
>> On 28/11/2016 08:52, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>>> Dear all
>>> Since updating to Sierra, search in mail has been really poor:
>>> Looking for mail I KNOW is there (in fact I’m looking right at it) - I search for a person’s name - and the mail from that person isn’t coming in.
>>> I’ve done “rebuild” on the mailbox to no avail.
>>>
>>> Suggestions??
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> m.c.
>> Jules
>>
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>> Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
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>> Twitter: @JulesFM
>>
>> Senior Tutor, Electronics and Computer Science
>> Teaching Systems Manager, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
>> University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
>>
>> 'Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds
>> us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from
>> us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see
>> ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.'
>> - Arthur Golden
>>
>

Jules

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Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
email+iMessage: Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Twitter: @JulesFM

Senior Tutor, Electronics and Computer Science
Teaching Systems Manager, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

'Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds
  us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from
  us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see
  ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.'
  - Arthur Golden