I have some green flagged messages that I cannot find. Selecting green flag and searching flag:green yield nothing. Running SS 3.3 on Tahoe 26.5.1. I’ve tried deleting the envelope index in ~/Library… to no effect. I’ve tried both the green flag options: on and off. Any ideas?
How do you know that the messages exist if you can’t see them in Mail? Do you see them in SpamSieve’s Log window?
Mail says there are green flagged messages. But I don’t now what they are.
Meaning that there is a number in the sidebar next to the green flag?
That does not necessarily mean that there are any such messages because the number could be incorrect due to a problem with Spotlight’s index. You could try rebuilding it with this Terminal command:
sudo mdutil -E /
That will probably take a long time but may either get rid of the number or help Mail to find the messages that are already indicated by the count (or some combination of the two).
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I will try that.
Yes, exactly what I meant.
Will let you know if that works.
Didn’t work on my desktop running SpamSieve. I’ll note that my laptop, not running SpamSieve, same set of accounts, shows no flagged messages.
Any messages that SpamSieve thinks are good will be left in the inbox (or wherever else there were, previously). So if you don’t see any there, I think it’s probably just a display bug (that Mail thinks there are green messages when there are none). Apple is supposedly fixing Mail search in macOS Golden Gate.
Thanks. It’s just annoying that I can’t find a workaround.
Apparently solved. Will explain solution later.
So here is how I solved it.
First, I turned all MacOS Mail account off until I could identify which account was causing problems. There was only one. It was one of my higher volume GMAIL accounts.
Then I went to mail.google.com for that account and searched for “is:starred”. Found out there were a bunch of messages that were “starred” that shouldn’t have been. I “unstirred” them.
Problem solved.
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