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

[Christopher Gutteridge]

The thunderbird Lightning plugin is pretty good for accepting meeting 
invites and inserting them into my google calendar.

Where Thunderbird is a bit iffy is the old mail search, which I've had 
issues with similar to the ones described earlier in Mail.app. I know an 
email exists but can't locate it.

Also, it does this very special thing where automatic updates disable 
most of your plugins. Almost all of the plugins I used to use couldn't 
keep up with the frequency of the updates and get disabled. There's no 
warning before you accept the update, and no undo option. Vexxing.


On 28/11/2016 09:17, Jules Field wrote:
> 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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>>>
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>>>
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>>> us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see
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>>> - Arthur Golden
>>>
>>
>
> Jules
>

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