(solved) Big Sur 11.0.1: Spotlight search for mails broken

[noxtos]

Since updating to Big Sur spotlight search for mails is broken on my system. Search always returns 0 results, no matter if I search from Mail.app's search field or via the Spotlight window. Already tried rebuilding mailboxes, deleting Envelope* files under ~/Library/Mail/V8/MailData and unchecking/checking Mail & Messages in the Spotlight system preferences.

Any tips? Thanks!

Edit: The issue was solved by manually re-sychronizing each and every one of my accounts. After that it took Spotlight a while to pick up the new information, now everything is back to normal.

 

[mcdawg]

Hasn't worked for me.
Mail search in Big Sur remains completely broken.

 

[gilby101]

Deleted

 

[RS1999ent]

Hi,

I'm having sort of related issues. Sometimes search in mail works perfectly. Other times it seems to "hang" or returns results that are seemingly unrelated. I can't tell if there's a pattern to when it works/doesn't work :/.

Info:
15" Macbook Pro, Late 2013
16GB Ram, 1TB SSD (at least 500GB free)
Big Sur, 11.01.

I have several inboxes configured, including IMAP (university email), Gmail, an exchange inbox, and two local inboxes holding archived mail from previous university accounts. I'll try resynchronizing the remote inboxes.

Thanks

 

[Macalway]

My issue is that method of clicking the upper bar to get it to return to most resent emails at the top, is gone, so if you search a message, and view it from say, 2010, you have to manually go back to the most resent. All Apple apps have this sorting convenience, so this is a bug.