Alfred Not Searching Apple Mail

[Tburka]

I've gone through all the troubleshooting of Alfred and Catalina and it won't search my email, even with the powerpack and the mail workflow installed.  I bought Alfred mostly for one purpose -- searching my mail, because Apple's search tools do such a poor job.  I rebuilt the index, etc., etc.  All I get when I put in em "search words" is Google, etc, etc. -- never mail.

[dfay]

Catalina blocks all third party searches from access to Mail.

[Vero]

@Tburka Unfortunately, Apple no longer allows third-party apps to access Mail data since Catalina.

 

More details here:

 

Cheers,
Vero

[TudorEynon]

I really wish Apple would change this. I use Alfred with Houdah Spot. It is a perfect set up. Well was until mail was fenced off. 

[Tburka]

It's so nice to know that Apple has removed this functionality so I have to rely on their search tools, which somehow manages not to return all kinds of results relevant to the searches I perform.  Huzzah!

[Tburka]

Wait a second -- so what search functionality still exists for Alfred?  I assume that there's a reason my searches of my files with Alfred also seem to produce incomplete results.

[deanishe]

17 hours ago, Tburka said:

so what search functionality still exists for Alfred?

 

It's just Mail that Apple crippled.